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Said in the 1600s
“One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.”
John Donne (1572–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Szklanki i piękna dziewczyna zawsze są w niebezpieczeństwie.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote:pl, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Źródło: „Wprost”, wydania 18–26, Agencja Wydawniczo-Reklamowa „Wprost”, 1994, s. 81.
“J’enrage de bon cœur d’avoir tort, lorsque j’ai raison.”
Molière (1622–1673) first seen 1668 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Georges Dandin (1668), Act I, sc. vii
“And whereas you would frighten us, by telling how emperors, kings, and princes have owned the bishop of Rome's authority; it was contrary in the beginning. For our Saviour Christ paid his tribute unto Caesar, as the chief superior; which shews your Romish supremacy is usurped.”
Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603) first seen 1559 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to the Catholic bishops (6 December 1559), quoted in John Strype, Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion, and Other Various Occurrences in the Church of England, during Queen Elizabeth's Happy Re…
“Je vous aime, Beaucoup moins que mon Dieu, mais bien plus que moi-même.”
Pierre Corneille (1606–1684) said by 1684 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“…On reaching Mooltan, Mahomed Kasim also subdued that province; and himself occupying the city, he erected mosques on the site of the Hindoo temples.”
Firishta (1560–1620) said by 1620 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A little too wise, they say, do ne’er live long.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) said by 1627 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Francis Bacon
“Shall I, like an hermit, dwell On a rock or in a cell?”
Walter Raleigh (1552–1618) said by 1618 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Poem reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Also quoted by: Sir Walter Raleigh
“The priests had been told that I had dared to say that the moon was the world I came from and that their world was only a moon. They believed that constituted an adequately just pretext to condemn me to drowning, which was their way of exterminating atheists.”
Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–1655) said by 1655 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Good to the poor, to kindred dear, To servants kind, to friendship clear, To nothing but herself severe.”
Thomas Carew (1594–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In our fluctuations of feeling, it is well to remember that Jesus admits no change in His affections; your heart is not the compass Jesus saileth by.”
Samuel Rutherford (1600–1661) said by 1661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whereas if the heart be moved, Although the verse be somewhat scant, God doth supply the want.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) said by 1633 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Se non è vero, è molto ben trovato.”
Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) first seen 1585 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: De gli heroici furori (1585) [The Heroic Furies; also translated as On Heroic Frenzies], as quoted in Sir William Gurney Benham, ed., A Book of Quotations, Proverbs and Household Words (1907)
“True prayer requires no word, no chant no gesture, no sound. It is communion, calm and still with our own godly Ground”
Angelus Silesius (1624–1677) said by 1677 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love a woman? You're an ass! 'Tis a most insipid passion To choose out for your happiness The silliest part of God's creation.”
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647–1680) said by 1680 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let no man appropriate to his own use what God, by a special mercy, or the republic, hath made common; for that is both against justice and charity too; and by miraculous accidents, God hath declared his displeasure against such enclosure.”
Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) first seen 1650 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Holy Living (1650), ch. 3, section 3.
“The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people's hearts … his people were his temple, and he dwelt in them.”
George Fox (1624–1691) said by 1691 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Journal (1694)
“The tumults in Scotland, about the Service-Book offered to be brought in, began Julii 23, 1637, and continued increasing by fits, and hath now brought that kingdom in danger. No question, but there's a great concurrence between them [the Covenanters] and the Puritan party in England. A great aim there to destroy me in the King's opinion.”
William Laud (1573–1645) first seen 1638 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diary (29 April 1638), quoted in The Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, William Laud, sometime Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. Volume III: Devotions, Diary, and History (1853), p. 230
“Maxima superbia vel abjectio est maxima sui ignorantia.”
Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) said by 1677 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Często uważałem, że ludzie małoduszni są najbardziej aroganccy i pyszni, podobnie jak wielkoduszni są najbardziej skromni i pokorni.”
Kartezjusz (1596–1650) said by 1650 at the latest wikiquote:pl, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven; It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Im dłuższa jest droga w miłości, tym więcej wybredna natura doznaje rozkoszy.”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) said by 1662 at the latest wikiquote:pl, 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
“Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to humans is one of the reasons that humanity is the image of God.”
Johannes Kepler (1572–1630) said by 1630 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Book III, Ch. 1 as quoted by , "Astrology in Kepler's Cosmology" in Astrology, Science, and Society: Historical Essays (1987) ed. P. Curry, p. 154.