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Said in the 1600s
“I can always say to myself that my atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests; and that even in this denial I am no rude iconoclast, but full of secret sympathy with the impulses of idolaters.”
Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) said by 1677 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: George Santayana, in "On My Friendly Critics", in Soliloquies in England (1922)
“Society is all but rude, To this delicious solitude.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Les gens sans bruit sont dangereux.”
Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695) first seen 1678 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Book VIII (1678–1679), fable 23.
“Rob Peter, and pay Paul.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It seems not absurd to conceive, that at first production of mixt bodies, the universal matter, whereof they among other parts of the universe consisted, was actually divided, into little particles, of several sizes and shapes, variously moved.”
Robert Boyle (1627–1691) said by 1691 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are entertainment that is not Christian in any season.”
Claude La Colombière (1641–1682) said by 1682 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“6 Proposition. The first Trumpet or Viall began at the Jubelee, in anno Christi 71.”
John Napier (1550–1617) said by 1617 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You will find angling to be like the virtue of humility, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of other blessings attending upon it.”
Izaak Walton (1593–1683) said by 1683 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do you say it is incomprehensible that there is nothingness in the world and that we are partly composed of nothing? Well, why not? Is not the whole world enveloped by nothingness? Since you concede that point, admit as well that it is just as easy for the world to have nothingness within as without.”
Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–1655) said by 1655 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.”
Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) first seen 1650 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Holy Living" (1650) ch. 2, section 6. "Of Contentedness in all Estates".
“Marriage is ever made by destiny.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For women grieve to think they must be old.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) first seen 1592 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1592 & 1594 eds.: "And" for "For
“Like a fool as I was , I suffered my sun to be high in the heavens and near afternoon before I ever took the gate by the end.”
Samuel Rutherford (1600–1661) said by 1661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 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
“Les hommes valeureux le sont du premier coup.”
Pierre Corneille (1606–1684) said by 1684 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who are a little wise, the best fools be.”
John Donne (1572–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Dr. John Donne
“As first a man cannot lay down the right of resisting them, that assault him by force, to take away his life; because he cannot be understood to ayme thereby, at any Good to himself.”
Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) said by 1679 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A spark without its fire, a drop without its sea, Without rebirth what more, pray, wouldst thou be?”
Angelus Silesius (1624–1677) said by 1677 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.”
Walter Raleigh (1552–1618) said by 1618 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fain Would I, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Also quoted by: Sir Walter Raleigh
“Love which is not humble is a devil.”
John of St. Samson (1572–1636) said by 1636 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ask me why this flower does show So yellow-green, and sickly too? Ask me why the stalk is weak And bending, yet it doth not break? I will answer: These discover What doubts and fears are in a lover.”
Thomas Carew (1594–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Of the eternal incorporeal substance nothing is changed, is formed or deformed, but there always remains only that thing which cannot be a subject of dissolution, since it is not possible that it be a subject of composition, and therefore, either of itself or by accident, it cannot be said to die.”
Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) said by 1600 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As translated by Arthur Imerti (1964)
“Christ imparts to all believers all the spiritual blessings that He is filled with, and withholds none from any that have union with Him, be these blessings never so great, or they that receive them never so weak and contemptible in outward respects. .”
John Flavel (1627–1691) said by 1691 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Il est plus difficile de dissimuler les sentiments que l'on a que de feindre ceux que l'on n'a pas.”
François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) said by 1680 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Maxim 56 from the posthumously published 1693 edition of the Maximes.