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Saturday, 5 July 2008
Daily Quote:
"A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship." (Francis De Sales, St. - Quarrels)

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Browse Quotations by Quincey, Thomas De

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
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.
Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.
In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.
Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium!
Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children -- honored as the jewelry of God only by them -- when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the Hebrew throne, although founded by God himself, and pronounced Solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these.
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.
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.
Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.


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