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Said in the 1800s

• “Try to grasp the essence of what the great artists, the serious masters, say in their masterpieces, and you will again find God in them. One man has written or said it in a book, another in a painting.”

  Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) said by 1890 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Her cabin’d, ample Spirit, It flutter’d and fail’d for breath. To-night it doth inherit The vasty Hall of Death.”

  Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) first seen 1853 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Requiescat", st. 4 (1853)

• “Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called, and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.”

  John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) said by 1873 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “As persons living in a house infested by venomous snakes are always alert and cautious, so should men living in the world be always on their guard against the allurements of lust and greed.”

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

• “The Webbs are really gone! When I saw the waggons at the door, and thought of all the trouble they must have in moving, I began to reproach myself for not having liked them better, but since the waggons have disappeared my conscience has been closed again, and I am excessively glad they are gone.”

  Jane Austen (1775–1817) first seen 1814 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Letter to Anna (1814-09-28) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]

• “Some Days retired from the rest In soft distinction lie, The Day that a companion came— Or was obliged to die.”

  Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) said by 1886 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “O, human love! thou spirit given, On Earth, of all we hope in Heaven!”

  Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) said by 1849 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Tamerlane", l. 177 (1884).

• “There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.”

  Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime. O good gray head which all men knew, O voice from which their omens all men drew, O iron nerve to true occasion true, O fallen at length that tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew!”

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We are always getting ready to live, but never living.”

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) first seen 1834 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: April 12, 1834

• “Here is a representative before the constituency had been born. Before I am bound by a representative I want a chance to vote for or against him; and if I had been there, and known all the circumstances, I should have voted “No!” And yet, I am held responsible.”

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

• “The problem of establishing a perfect civic constitution is dependent upon the problem of a lawful external relation among states and cannot be solved without a solution of the latter problem.”

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

• “Wer immer strebend sich bemüht, Den können wir erlösen.”

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

• “Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.”

  James Anthony Froude (1818–1894) said by 1894 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the very best interests of the whole people. Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent.”

  Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) said by 1885 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth.”

  Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) first seen 1829 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Voltaire, Foreign Review, (1829)

• “No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”

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

• “Love on through all ills, and love on till they die.”

  Thomas Moore (1779–1852) said by 1852 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The only revolutions wh[ich] have turned out well have been defensive revolutions – ours of 1688 – the French of 1830 – the American was, to a great extent, of the same kind.”

  Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859) first seen 1858 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Journal entry (29 December [1858]), quoted in Joseph Hamburger, 'Introduction', to Thomas Babington Macaulay, Napoleon and the Restoration of the Bourbons: The Completed Portion of Macaulay's Projected "History of Franc…

• “A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written.”

  Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) first seen 1771 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Letter to Robert Skipwith (3 August 1771) ; also in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (19 Vols., 1905) edited by Andrew A. Lipscomb and Albert Ellery Bergh, Vol. 4, p. 239

• “To see the world means judging the judges.”

  Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) said by 1824 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “He hated the thought of the past; there was nothing that called out his love and fellowship toward the strangers he had come amongst; and the future was all dark.”

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

• “For mere vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. But for security of the future I would do every thing.”

  James A. Garfield (1831–1881) first seen 1865 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Speech in New York City (15 April 1865) on the occasion of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, as reported in John Clark Ridpath, The Life and Work of James A. Garfield (1882 memorial edition), p. 194. Several biographers …

• “A reading-machine, always wound up and going, He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.”

  James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source