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ec81a0e Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else. Thomas De Quincey
77a802b The burden of the incommunicable. Thomas De Quincey
09d8f36 Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium! Thomas De Quincey
6834467 Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated--everlasting farewells! Thomas De Quincey
41b0f7d In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage. Thomas De Quincey
5c22d97 A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made. Thomas De Quincey
1200ec4 Turn over a new leaf. Thomas Dekker (writer)
80d5cc2 A serjeant is a soldier with a halbert, and a drummer is a soldier with a drum. Thomas Denison
aca344d None shall be disseised of his freehold" (Magna Charta). Thomas Denison
19f6425 Minds are like parachutes: they only function when open. Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
ec5b21d Now we've entered Globalization 3.0, and it is shrinking the world from size small to a size tiny. Thomas Friedman
6caac6e The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature is Father Greed. Thomas Friedman
a3e9796 Miracles are the swaddling-clothes of infant churches. Thomas Fuller
8bf7a54 Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune. Thomas Fuller
0bbecbf He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows. Thomas Fuller
15c9a0b T]hey which play with the devils rattles, will be brought by degrees to wield his sword[.] Thomas Fuller
1aabc21 One that will not plead that cause wherein his tongue must be confuted by his conscience. Thomas Fuller
8bd1ec9 Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. Thomas Fuller
6ba04a0 Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost. Thomas Fuller
9552c25 Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing. Thomas Fuller
dad22c4 Heat of passion makes our souls to chap, and the devil creeps in at the crannies. Thomas Fuller
c2c74c5 Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation. Thomas Gainsborough
9547a17 We love a genius for what he leaves and mourn him for what he takes away. Thomas Gainsborough
53eec75 We are all going to Heaven, and Vandyck is of the company. Thomas Gainsborough
c2d4271 A theorist can explain any correlation, and its inverse. Thomas Gold
d4cbef3 Doth Nature know our dream, or is the mindA passing breath her beauty leaves behind? Thomas Gordon Hake
b56b6d0 There is something very dry in family history, because no one cares for other people's relations. Thomas Gordon Hake
c2ebda1 The more a writer deviates from simplicity, the less sincere he appears. Thomas Gordon Hake
b1f8fd9 A poem, of whatever length, should start vividly, so as to wind up the ear and set the mind ticking. Thomas Gordon Hake
e7ed9fc What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe. Thomas Gray
81431ee Now my weary lips I close; Leave me, leave me to repose! Thomas Gray
95268ad Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darkened air. Thomas Gray
6f83200 Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune. Thomas Gray
6ff940c I shall be but a shrimp of an author. Thomas Gray
341e768 Comus and his midnight crew. Thomas Gray
5ac407a While bright-eyed Science watches round. Thomas Gray
5654b1b And weep the more, because I weep in vain. Thomas Gray
0616cbb Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. Thomas Gray
4f6f330 The social smile, the sympathetic tear. Thomas Gray
d0c705c And hie him home, at evening's close, To sweet repast and calm repose. Thomas Gray
3b430a7 From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take. Thomas Gray
8bc3ac1 Glance their many-twinkling feet. Thomas Gray
415b9e8 Far from the sun and summer-gale, In thy green lap was Nature's Darling laid. Thomas Gray
9197fd4 Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears. Thomas Gray