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Said in the 1600s
“It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.”
Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) first seen 1658 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Words that Cromwell spoke as he was dying and was offered a drink (3 September 1658)
“I shall take leave to think the worse, rather of the practice of the men than of the book of God.”
Robert Boyle (1627–1691) first seen 1661 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Some Considerations Touching the Style of the Holy Scriptures" (1661) "Seventh Objection", as quoted in Treatises on the High Veneration Man's Intellect Owes to God: on Things Above Reason; and on The Style of the Holy …
“People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment.”
Miyamoto Musashi (1584–1645) said by 1645 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If they have entered into the spirit if these rules, and if the rules have made sufficient impression on them to become rooted and established in their minds, they will feel how much difference there is between what is said here and what a few logicians may perhaps have written by chance approximating to it in a few passages of their works.”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) said by 1662 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“L’enseigne fait la chalandise.”
Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695) first seen 1678 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Book VII (1678–1679), fable 16 (The Fortune-Tellers).
“Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pity is sworn servant unto love; And thus be sure, wherever it begin To make the way, it lets the master in.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And upon all that are lovers of virtue, and dare trust in his Providence, and be quiet and go a-angling.”
Izaak Walton (1593–1683) said by 1683 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The sight of the intuitive and ravishing Beauty of God holds her as if asleep in its delectable bosom...This state surpasses all human definition and comparison.”
John of St. Samson (1572–1636) said by 1636 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For my voice, I have lost it with halloing and singing of anthems.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Be useful where thou livest.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) said by 1633 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery; but depth in that study brings him about again to our religion.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) said by 1661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As the case stands.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) first seen 1618 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Old Law (1618-19), Act ii. Sc. 1. Co-written with William Rowley and perhaps a third collaborator, who may have been Philip Massinger or Thomas Heywood. Compare: "As the case stands", Mathew Henry, Commentaries, Psa…
Also quoted by: Francis Bacon
“Fish and guests in three days are stale.”
John Lyly (1554–1606) said by 1606 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Любой судьбе любовь даёт отпор.”
Мигель де Сервантес (1547–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote:ru, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In 1430, Amir Shaikh Ali from Kabul attacked Sirhind and Lahore in Punjab. In Lahore, records Ferishtah, ‘40,000 Hindus were computed to have been massacred, besides a great number carried away prisoners’; in Toolumba (Multan), his army ‘plundered the place, and put to death all the men able to bear arms… and carried the wives and children of the inhabitants into captivity.’”
Firishta (1560–1620) said by 1620 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: quoted in M.A. Khan , Islamic Jihad: A legacy of forced conversion, imperialism and slavery (2011), quoting quoting Ferishtah, Vol. I
“'Twas God the Word that spake it, He took the Bread and brake it: And what that Word did make it, That I believe and take it.”
Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603) first seen 1554 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Verses on the Real presence of Christ in the Eucharist whilst prisoner in Woodstock Palace (c. 1554), quoted in Queen Elizabeth's Opinion concerning Transubstantiation, Or the Real Presence of Christ in the Blessed Sacr…
“Rome was not built in a day.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: English proverb (english)
“To a body of infinite size there can be ascribed neither centre nor boundary... Thus the Earth no more than any other world is at the centre.”
Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) said by 1600 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Much wine had past, with grave discourse, Of who fucks who, and who does worse.”
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647–1680) said by 1680 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Хороша любовь искомая, ещё лучше — рождающаяся без исканий.”
Уильям Шекспир (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote:ru, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Как только вы вообразите, что не в состоянии выполнить определённое дело, с этого момента его осуществление становится для вас невозможным.”
Бенедикт Спиноза (1632–1677) said by 1677 at the latest wikiquote:ru, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...for there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens...”
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".
“What can be said is that Spinoza is, without question, one of history's most eloquent proponents of a secular, democratic society and the strongest advocate for freedom and toleration in the early modern period.”
Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) said by 1677 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Steven Nadler, A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011)