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Said in the 1600s
“Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfill All offices of death, except to kill.”
John Donne (1572–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“«Y yo soy del parecer y la experiencia lo enseña, que ablandaran una peña lágrimas de una mujer».”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote:es, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Le vrai moyen d'être trompé, c'est de se croire plus fin que les autres.”
François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) said by 1680 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fortune, now see, now proudly Pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph; look, Look what thou hast brought this land to!—”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Angling is somewhat like poetry,--men are to be born so.”
Izaak Walton (1593–1683) said by 1683 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) said by 1662 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“«Contra la maledicencia no hay escudo».”
Molière (1622–1673) said by 1673 at the latest wikiquote:es, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.”
Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695) said by 1695 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Subcontact : Slap the Face of Fear and Wake Up Your Subconscious (2001) by Dian Benson, p. 149
“I am Richard II know ye not that? ... He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors; this tragedy was played 40 times in open streets and houses.”
Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603) first seen 1601 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks to William Lambarde (4 August 1601), quoted in "That which passed from the Excellent Majestie of Queen Elizabeth, in her Privie Chamber at East Greenwich, 4 August 1601, 43° reg. sui, towards William Lambarde.",…
“They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.”
Thomas Browne (1605–1682) said by 1682 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The town was abuzz with talk of the King's animals. We were fed regularly, and the King and Queen quite often enjoyed feeling my abdomen to see if I weren't pregnant; they were extraordinarily eager to have a whole family of little animals like us.”
Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–1655) said by 1655 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.”
John Lyly (1554–1606) said by 1606 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Richard Hooker
“No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women.”
Walter Raleigh (1552–1618) said by 1618 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) first seen 1646 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Andronicus, or the Unfortunate Politician (1646), Sect. vi. Par. 18, 1. Compare: "My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall …
“The best mirrour is an old friend.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) said by 1633 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who would expect it so? From darkness light is brought, Life rises out of Death, And Something comes from Naught.”
Angelus Silesius (1624–1677) said by 1677 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“«Es tan fácil engañarse así mismo sin darse cuenta como difícil engañar a los demás sin que lo noten».”
François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) said by 1680 at the latest wikiquote:es, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I certainly know that I owe it [the Copernican theory] this duty, that as I have attested it as true in my deepest soul, and as I contemplate its beauty with incredible and ravishing delight, I should also publicly defend it to my readers with all the force at my command.”
Johannes Kepler (1572–1630) said by 1630 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Acquaintance I would have, but when't depends Not on the number, but the choice of friends.”
Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) said by 1667 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...Subsequently, he [Romain Rolland] discovered a third master, a liberator of his faith. This was Spinoza, whose acquaintance he made during an evening spent alone at school, and whose gentle intellectual light was henceforward to illumine Rolland's soul throughout life. The greatest of mankind have ever been his examples and companions.”
Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) said by 1677 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Stefan Zweig, in his book Romain Rolland: The Man and His Work. Translated from the original manuscript by Eden and Cedar Paul. (New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1921)
“«Nuestra imaginación nos agranda tanto el tiempo presente, que hacemos de la eternidad una nada, y de la nada una eternidad».”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) said by 1662 at the latest wikiquote:es, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Are we to mark this day with a white or a black stone?”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He will not eat his dinner before he hath looked in his almanack, nor pare his nails while Monday, to be fortunate in his love.”
Thomas Lodge (1558–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source