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Said in the 1600s
“4 Proposition. The kinges of the East, or four Angels, specified in the sixt trumpet, or sixt vial. Cap. 9. & 16. are the four nations, Mahometanes beyond and about Euphrates, who began their empire by Ottoman, in the yeare of Christ, 1296. or thereabout.”
John Napier (1550–1617) said by 1617 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[M]y care was against all underminings, both at home and abroad, of the established doctrine and discipline of the Church of England, for which I am now like to suffer. And I pray God that point of Arminianism, libertas prophetandi [the right to proclaim different opinions], do not more mischief in short time, than is expressible by me.”
William Laud (1573–1645) first seen 1644 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at his trial (17 June 1644), quoted in The Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, William Laud, sometime Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. Volume IV: History of Troubles and Trial (1854), p. 263
“Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice”
Izaak Walton (1593–1683) said by 1683 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Peu de généreux vont jusqu'à dédaigner, Après un sceptre acquis, la douceur de régner.”
Pierre Corneille (1606–1684) said by 1684 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We can make majors and officers every year, but not scholars; kings can invest knights and barons, as Sigismund the emperor confessed.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I signaled to my host to try to have the philosophers expound on some aspect of their knowledge. As a good friend he immediately rose to the occasion. I won't go into the conversation that accompanied his request, and the difference between the comic and the serious was too slight to translate.”
Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–1655) said by 1655 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the attractive virtue of the moon extends as far as the earth, it follows with greater reason that the attractive virtue of the earth extends as far as the moon and much farther; and, in short, nothing which consists of earthly substance anyhow constituted although thrown up to any height, can ever escape the powerful operation of this attractive virtue.”
Johannes Kepler (1572–1630) said by 1630 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I see grace growth best in winter”
Samuel Rutherford (1600–1661) said by 1661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter 74 to Lady Culross Aberdeen 1837
“Before he ascended the throne, he had once a quarrel with a holy man who maintained that it was highly improper for a king to interfere with the religion of his subjects or to prevent them from bathing at places to which they had been accustomed to resort for ages. The prince ( Sikandar ) drew his sword and said "Do you maintain the propriety of Hindu religion.”
Firishta (1560–1620) first seen 1489 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sultãn Sikandar Lodî (AD 1489-1517) Mathura (Uttar Pradesh) quoted from Shraddananda, Hindu Sangathan, Saviour of the Dying Race (Delhi 1926)
“As cool as a clock.”
Thomas Lodge (1558–1625) first seen 1592 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Euphues' Shadow (1592)
“The compassionate heart of his majesty finds no pleasure in cruelties or in causing sorrow to others; he is ever sparing of the lives of his subjects, wishing to bestow happiness upon all.”
Akbar (1542–1605) said by 1605 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ain-i-Akbari by Abul Fazl. quoted from Lal, K. S. (1999). Theory and practice of Muslim state in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 2
Also quoted by: Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak
“After regeneration the Spirit works upon a complying and willing mind — we work, and He assists. It is therefore an error that sanctified persons are not bound to strive in the way of duty without a sensible impulse of the Spirit.”
John Flavel (1627–1691) said by 1691 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Though blood be the best sauce for victory, yet must it not be more than the meat.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) first seen 1639 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The History of the Holy War (1639), Book I, Ch. 24
“And whilst our souls negotiate there, We like sepulchral statues lay; All day, the same our postures were, And we said nothing, all the day.”
John Donne (1572–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A doubtful balance is made between truth and pleasure, and... the knowledge of one and the feeling of the other stir up a combat the success of which is very uncertain, since, in order to judge of it, it would be necessary to know all that passes in the innermost spirit of the man, of which man himself is scarcely ever conscious.”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) said by 1662 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.”
Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) said by 1667 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Then crown my joys, or cure my pain; Give me more love or more disdain; The torrid or the frozen zone: Bring equal ease unto my pain; The temperate affords me none: Either extreme, of love or hate, Is sweeter than a calm estate.”
Thomas Carew (1594–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This [experimentation] is the custom—and properly so—in those sciences where mathematical demonstrations are applied to natural phenomena, as is seen in the case of perspective, astronomy, mechanics, music, and others where the principles, once established by well-chosen experiments, become the foundations of the entire superstructure.”
Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) said by 1642 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But exhortations must prevail with their own proper weight, not by the passion of the speaker.”
Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) first seen 1651 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Holy Dying (1651), chapter 5, section 2.
“Devotion, mother of obedience.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The three shouts are divided thus: before, during and after. Shout according to the situation. The voice is a thing of life. We shout against fires and so on, against the wind and the waves. The voice shows energy.”
Miyamoto Musashi (1584–1645) said by 1645 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yet Lord restore thine image, hear my call: And though my hard heart scare to thee can groan, Remember that thou once didst write in stone.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) said by 1633 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Men are not hang'd for stealing Horses, but that Horses may not be stolen.”
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633–1695) said by 1695 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source