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• “Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.”

  Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) said by 1805 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea!”

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894) said by 1894 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Oliver Wendell Holmes

• “Earth helped him with the cry of blood.”

  William Wordsworth (1770–1850) said by 1850 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Friends as we are, we would willingly keep your failings to ourselves — even from ourselves if we could, unless by knowing them we could deliver you from them.”

  Anne Brontë (1820–1849) said by 1849 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “[H]e was now a cold observer, looking on mankind as the subject of his experiment, and, at length, converting man and woman to be his puppets, and pulling the wires that moved them to such degrees of crime as were demanded by his study. Thus Ethan Brand became a fiend. He began to be so from the moment that his moral nature had ceased to keep the pace of improvement with his intellect.”

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Say not "a small event!" Why "small"? Costs it more pain that this ye call A "great event" should come to pass From that? Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed!”

  Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Visit not miracle-mongers and those who exhibit occult powers. These men are stragglers from the path of Truth. Their minds have become entangled in psychic powers, which are like veritable meshes in the way of the pilgrim to Brahman. Beware of these powers, and desire them not. (372)”

  Ramakrishna (1836–1886) said by 1886 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.”

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) first seen 1874 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Universities, Actual and Ideal" (1874)

• “Die Forderung, die Illusionen über seinen Zustand aufzugeben, ist die Forderung, einen Zustand aufzugeben, der der Illusionen bedarf." - Zur Kritik der Hegelschen Rechtsphilosophie. Einleitung. MEW 1, S. 378, 1844”

  Karl Marx (1818–1883) said by 1883 at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Considering the optimistic turn taken by world trade AT THIS MOMENT…it is some consolation at least that the revolution has begun in Russia, for I regard the convocation of 'notables' to Petersburg as such a beginning. … [O]n the Continent revolution is imminent and will, moreover, instantly assume a socialist character.”

  Karl Marx (1818–1883) first seen 1856 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Letter to Friedrich Engels (8 October 1858), quoted in The Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Volume 40. Letters 1856–59 (2010), pp. 346–347

• “Some set out, like Crusaders of old, with a glorious equipment of hope and enthusiasm and get broken by the way, wanting patience with each other and the world.”

  George Eliot (1819–1880) said by 1880 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Imagination governs the world.”

  Napoleon (1769–1821) said by 1821 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Look, then, into thine heart, and write!”

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Henry W. Longfellow

• “Die Welt ist eine Glocke, die einen Riß hat: sie klappert, aber klingt nicht.”

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) said by 1832 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “So verhindert das Verbot der Publizität den Fortschritt eines Volkes zum Besseren, selbst in dem, was das mindeste seiner Forderung, nämlich bloß sein natürliches Recht angeht." - Der Streit der Fakultäten, zweiter Abschnitt, A 153”

  Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) said by 1804 at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Alas! that every lovely thing Lives only but for withering,— That spring rainbows and summer shine End but in autumn's pale decline.”

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) said by 1838 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.”

  Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Paper, they say, does not blush, but I assure you it's not true and that it's blushing just as I am now, all over.”

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Poetry Fetter'd. Fetters the Human Race. Nations are Destroy'd, or Flourish, in proportion as Their Poetry, Painting, and Music are Destroy'd or Flourish!”

  William Blake (1757–1827) said by 1827 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Und ich habe […] gefunden, dass Missverständnisse und Trägheit vielleicht mehr Irrungen in der Welt machen als List und Bosheit. Wenigstens sind die beiden letzteren gewiß seltener." – Die Leiden des jungen Werther – Am 4. Mai 1771”

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) said by 1832 at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “He treated me as a man... He did not let me feel for a moment that there was any difference in the color of our skins.”

  Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) first seen 1863 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: About Abraham Lincoln (1864), as quoted in Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, by Eric Foner, p. 6

• “So I say, let us judge each other by our actions, not by theories, not by what we happen to believe -- because that depends very much on where we were born.”

  Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) said by 1899 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Is not “Christendom” the most colossal attempt at serving God, not by following Christ, as He required, and suffering for the doctrine, but instead of that, by “building the sepulchers of the prophets and garnishing the tombs of the righteous.”

  Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) said by 1855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.”

  Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) first seen 1646 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: This quote has been misattributed to Kant since the late 19th century, but it is actually from The Balm of Gilead by Joseph Hall (1646), the section "Comfort from the short life of slander".

  Also quoted by: Immanuel Kant (misattributed)