Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
- Thomas de Quincey
Love, Deep, Profess, Cows
Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.
- Thomas de Quincey
Rest, Call, His, Earthly
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.
- Thomas de Quincey
Silent, May, Though, Essential
Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.
- Thomas de Quincey
May, Ideal, Itself, Imperfection
Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.
- Thomas de Quincey
Will, Always, Though, Beverage
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
- Thomas de Quincey
Will, Grave, Complexion, Solemn
It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.
- Thomas de Quincey
London, Wet, Spectacle, Rainy
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
- Thomas de Quincey
Think, Next, Very, Robbing
In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.
- Thomas de Quincey
Conscience, Carriage, Walks, Expensive
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Thomas de Quincey
Sleep, Forget, His, Anger
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