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Said in the 1600s
“They now to fight are gone, Armour on armour shone, Drum now to drum did groan, To hear, was wonder; That with the cries they make, The very earth did shake, Trumpet to trumpet spake, Thunder to thunder.”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Le temps, qui fortifie les amitiés, affaiblit l'amour.”
Jean de La Bruyère (1645–1696) said by 1696 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some of the world's strategists are concerned only with sword fencing, and limit their training to flourishing the long sword and carriage of the body. But is dexterity alone sufficient to win? This is not the essence of the Way. I have recorded the unsatisfactory points of other schools one by one in this book.”
Miyamoto Musashi (1584–1645) said by 1645 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now as they were going along and talking, they espied a Boy feeding his Father’s Sheep. The Boy was in very mean Cloaths, but of a very fresh and well-favoured Countenance, and as he sate by himself he sung. Hark, said Mr Greatheart, to what the Shepherd’s boy saith. So they hearkened, and he said—”
John Bunyan (1628–1688) said by 1688 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I know that as night and shadows are good for flowers, and moonlight and dews are better than a continual sun, so is Christ's absence of special use, and that it hath some nourishing virtue in it, and giveth sap to humility, and putteth an edge on hunger, and furnisheth a fair field for faith to put forth itself.”
Samuel Rutherford (1600–1661) said by 1661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“El vivir Eterno es viver con honra.”
Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–1681) said by 1681 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: , Act I, sc. i (tr. C. T. Ramage, 1880)
“[..that he] would not touch the painting, nor finish it unless the claimant pays him the balance due or guarantees it by giving a security.”
Rembrandt (1606–1669) first seen 1654 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: from a notary document, 1654 (location: RD, 1654/5, 310); as quoted in Rembrandt's Eyes, Simon Schama, Alfred A. Knopf, Borzoi Books, New York 1999, p. 569 - note 7
“The first revolutionary step of Akbar was the abolition of the Jiziyah, the hated discriminatory tax paid by Hindu Zimmis. The Hindus, as Zimmis, had become second class citizens in their own homeland and were suffered to live under certain disabilities.”
Akbar (1542–1605) said by 1605 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lal, K. S. (1999). Theory and practice of Muslim state in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 2
“A good life is a main argument.”
Ben Jonson (1572–1637) said by 1637 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To tell the truth, the chariot was an astonishing sight to behold, because I had polished the steel of my flying house so carefully that it reflected the sunlight on all sides. It was so bright and dazzling that I thought, myself, that I had been carried away in a chariot of fire.”
Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–1655) said by 1655 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Seigneur, si j'ai raison, qu'importe à qui je sois?”
Pierre Corneille (1606–1684) said by 1684 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[About how many people offend me] what harm do they do me if I am patient? In fact, what good are they not doing me? But what harm they do not to themselves in the present and future.”
Claude La Colombière (1641–1682) said by 1682 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A horrid Monster, huge, deform'd, and blind.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) said by 1676 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man's own observation, what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.”
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) said by 1626 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The world's whole sap is sunk: The general balm th' hydroptic earth hath drunk, Whither, as to the bed's-feet, life is shrunk, Dead and interred; yet all these seem to laugh, Compared with me, who am their epitaph.”
John Donne (1572–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...in statu naturae Mensuram juris esse Utilitatem.”
Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) first seen 1642 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: De Cive (1642)
“I am neither heir nor executor to Charles Stuart.”
Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) first seen 1651 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Repudiating a royal debt (August 1651)
“Proposition I. Theorem I: When a projectile is carried in motion compounded from equable horizontal and from naturally accelerated downward [motions], it describes a semiparabolic line in its movement.”
Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) said by 1642 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Author, Day Four, Stillman Drake translation (1974) p. 269
“Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 't is an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.”
John Selden (1584–1654) said by 1654 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) said by 1661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All things that are Made for our general uses are at war,-- Even we among ourselves.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The noblest Digladiation is in the Theatre of ourselves.”
Thomas Browne (1605–1682) said by 1682 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“L'intention de ne jamais tromper nous expose à être souvent trompés.”
François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) said by 1680 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source