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Said in the 1600s
“Justice may wink a while, but see at last.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) first seen 1621 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hengist, King of Kent, or The Mayor of Quinborough (1621).
“It is the duty of the saints, especially in times of straights, to reflect upon the performances of Providence for them in all the states and through all the stages of their lives.”
John Flavel (1627–1691) said by 1691 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So, when my Days of Impotence approach, And I'm by Pox and Wine's unlucky chance Driv'n from the pleasing Billows of debauch On the dull Shore of lazy Temperance;My Pains at least some Respite shall afford While I behold the Battles you maintain When Fleets of Glasses sail about the Board, From whose Broad-sides Volleys of Wit shall rain.”
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647–1680) said by 1680 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“الأرقام المثالية مثل الرجال المثاليين نادرين جدًا.”
رينيه ديكارت (1596–1650) said by 1650 at the latest wikiquote:ar, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This fair city opens to all Rama’s heaven, The whole world knows well here is holiness given. Beyond number souls from the four wombs are born. But the souls who in Avadh die never return. Well knowing this city the home of delight, The giver of wealth, source of all that is bright, Its history pure I’ll begin to relate; Once heard it destroys passion, envy and hate.”
Tulsidas (1511–1623) said by 1623 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'Tis a word that's quickly spoken, Which being restrained, a heart is broken.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) first seen 1622 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Spanish Curate (licensed 24 October 1622; 1647), Act II, scene 5, Song
“Step by step walk the thousand-mile road.”
Miyamoto Musashi (1584–1645) said by 1645 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For Prudence, is but Experience; which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.”
Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) said by 1679 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Affection is blind reason.”
James Howell (1594–1666) said by 1666 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The world's a scene of changes, and to be Constant, in Nature were inconstancy.”
Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) said by 1667 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy!”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Qui peut tout doit tout craindre.”
Pierre Corneille (1606–1684) said by 1684 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pour être dévot, je n'en suis pas moins homme.”
Molière (1622–1673) said by 1673 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The First Proposition. In propheticall dates of daies, weekes, moneths, and yeares, everie common propheticall day is taken for a yeare.”
John Napier (1550–1617) said by 1617 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He is a narrow-minded man, that affects a triumph in any glorious study; but to triumph in a lie, and a lie themselves have forged, is frontless. Folly often goes beyond her bounds; but Impudence knows none.”
Ben Jonson (1572–1637) said by 1637 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To see God only, I go out of sight; And to escape stormy days, I choose An everlasting night.”
John Donne (1572–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“…Mahmood Shah Shurky, having recruited his army, took the field again for the purpose of reducing some refractory zemindars in the district of Chunar, which place he sacked, and from thence proceeded into the province of Orissa, which he also reduced; and having destroyed the temples and collected large sums of money, returned to Joonpoor.”
Firishta (1560–1620) first seen 1440 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sultãn Mahmûd Shãh bin Ibrãhîm Sharqî of Jaunpur (AD 1440-1457)Orissa
Also quoted by: Mahmud Shah of Jaunpur
“Le refus des louanges est un désir d'être loué deux fois.”
François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) said by 1680 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sin is ashamed of sin.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Minions too great argue a King too weak.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Women wear the breeches.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Can the seventeenth-century rationalist, who produced one of the most ambitious philosophical systems in the history of Western philosophy, be considered, by any stretch of interpretation, a Jewish thinker? Can he even be considered a Jew? Benedictus Spinoza is the greatest philosopher that the Jews ever produced, which adds a certain irony to his questionable Jewishness.”
Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) said by 1677 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rebecca Goldstein, Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity (New York: Schocken, 2006)
“Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.”
John Selden (1584–1654) said by 1654 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree [probably Caesar Baronius]: "The intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how heaven goes.”
Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) said by 1642 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source