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• “We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure remarks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatever.”

  Isaac Newton (1643–1727) said by 1727 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Anecdote reported by Dr. Robert Smith, late Master of Trinity College, to his student Richard Watson, as something that Newton expressed when he was writing his Commentary On Daniel. In Watson's Apology for the Bible. L…

• “Three removes are as bad as a fire.”

  Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) said by 1790 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source

• “Our island is this earth; and the most striking object we behold is the sun. As soon as we pass beyond our immediate surroundings, one or both of these must meet our eye. Thus the philosophy of most savage races is mainly directed to imaginary divisions of the earth or to the divinity of the sun.”

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) said by 1778 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “To men of other minds my fancy flies, Embosomed in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land.”

  Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) said by 1774 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed.”

  Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) first seen 1751 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: No. 86 (12 January 1751)

• “Judas had given them the slip.”

  Matthew Henry (1662–1714) said by 1714 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Mathew Henry

• “If there's delight in love, 'tis when I see That heart which others bleed for, bleed for me.”

  William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?”

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) said by 1797 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Le doute n'est pas un état bien agréable, mais l'assurance est un état ridicule. Ce qui révolte le plus dans le Système de la nature (après la façon de faire des anguilles avec de la farine), c'est l'audace avec laquelle il décide qu'il n'y a point de Dieu , sans avoir seulement tenté d'en prouver l'impossibilité.”

  Voltaire (1694–1778) first seen 1770 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Letter to Frederick William, Prince of Prussia (28 November 1770). English: in S. G. Tallentyre (ed.), Voltaire in His Letters (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1919) p. 232. French: Au prince royal de prusse, le 28 novem…

• “For wheresoe'er I turn my ravished eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground.”

  Joseph Addison (1672–1719) first seen 1701 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: A Letter from Italy, to the Right Honourable Charles, Lord Halifax (1701)

• “कानूनों को अनुमति देने का अधिकार स्वतंत्रता है।”

  मान्टेस्क्यू (1689–1755) said by 1755 at the latest wikiquote:hi, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “यदि आप अपनी प्रतिष्ठा को महत्व देते हैं तो अच्छे गुणों वाले लोगों की संगति करें, क्योंकि बुरी संगति से अकेले रहना बेहतर है।”

  जॉर्ज वॉशिंगटन (1732–1799) said by 1799 at the latest wikiquote:hi, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “If I had married a woman intelligent enough to guide me, to rule me without my feeling that I was ruled, I should have taken good care of my money, I should have had children, and I should not be, as now I am, alone in the world and possessing nothing.”

  Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) said by 1798 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, v. 8, chapter 4, p. 94

• “The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.”

  Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased; and its value, to those who possess it, and who want to exchange it for some new productions, is precisely equal to the quantity of labour which it can enable them to purchase or command.”

  Adam Smith (1723–1790) said by 1790 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We shall get a sufficient quantity of provisions over to-day for the garrison at Fort Washington. General Mifflin thinks it not advisable to pull the barracks down yet. lie has hopes of our army returning to that ground for winter-quarters. I think this would be running too great a risk to leave them standing in expectation of such an event.”

  Nathanael Greene (1742–1786) said by 1786 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “This Treatise, he says, was read before the Royal Academy of Sweden the third day of April 1742. ...This was eleven Months after mine was laid before the Royal Society.”

  Stephen Hales (1677–1761) said by 1761 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.”

  Laurence Sterne (1713–1768) said by 1768 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The beauty or uncomeliness of many things, in good and ill breeding, will be better learnt, and make deeper impressions on them, in the examples of others, than from any rules or instructions can be given about them.”

  John Locke (1632–1704) said by 1704 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Harry Vane, Pulteney's toad-eater.”

  Horace Walpole (1717–1797) first seen 1742 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Letter to Sir Horace Mann (1742)

• “The sense of justice and injustice is not deriv'd from nature, but arises artificially... from education, and human conventions.”

  David Hume (1711–1776) said by 1776 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The English are very fond of a game they call cricket. For this purpose they go into a large open field, and knock a small ball about with a piece of wood. I will not attempt to describe this game to you, it is too complicated; but it requires agility and skill, and everyone plays it, the common people and also men of rank.”

  César-François de Saussure (1705–1783) said by 1783 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “how can one live without Mozart.”

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) said by 1791 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Shulamith Hareven "Twilight" in Twilight and Other Stories (1992), translated from Hebrew

• “The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.”

  Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696–1782) said by 1782 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source