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3 Quotes for 'Thomas De Quincey ("The Opium Eater")' in the Database.
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Thomas De Quincey ("The Opium Eater") Quotes
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Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill
you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit
once in so many trials, argues the most splendid talents for
missing.
Topic: Failure
Source: Works (vol. XIV, p. 161), quoting the Emperor Galerius to a soldier who missed the target many times
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Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium!
Topic: Imagination
Source: Confessions of an Opium Eater
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There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the
literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the
function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the
second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive
understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to
the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections
of pleasure and sympathy.
- Thomas De Quincey ("The Opium Eater"),
Topic: Literature
Source: Essays on the Poets--Alexander Pope
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