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“We are not to judge individuals hastily on account of social mischiefs, that may be due to them as a body, through their holding of a position inherited from their forefathers, the whole nature of which they have not had strength and depth of wisdom to detect.”
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) first seen 1889 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘Memorials of a Southern Planter’, The Nineteenth Century, Vol. 26, Issue 154 (December 1889), pp. 984-986
“What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?”
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) first seen 1836 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1836
“For this is England's greatest son, He that gained a hundred fights, And never lost an English gun.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Huxley gave the death-blow not only to Owen's theory of the skull but also to Owen's hitherto unchallenged prestige.”
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) said by 1895 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Henry Fairfield Osborn in Impressions of Great Naturalists. (1924) p. 113
“A thinking man's greatest happiness is to have fathomed what can be fathomed and to revere in silence what cannot be fathomed.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) first seen 1207 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Maxim 1207, trans. Stopp (p153)
“You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only escapes by transformation.”
George Eliot (1819–1880) said by 1880 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness, than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.”
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) first seen 1829 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: American Literature — Dr. Channing," Edinburgh Review, (October 1829), reprinted in The Collected Works of William Hazlitt (1902-1904)
“The beginning of religion, more precisely its content, is the concept of religion itself, that God is the absolute truth, the truth of all things, and subjectively that religion alone is the absolutely true knowledge.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) said by 1831 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The 'Union' arrangements are all a humbug. They reverse the scriptural order, calling the righteous and not sinners to repentance. Let us not be slandered or intimidated to turn from our duty. Eternal right makes might. As we understand our duty, let us do it!”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) said by 1865 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wir sind Ein Volk, und einig wollen wir handeln.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) said by 1805 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He took his lute—his voice was low, So lapsing waters softly flow Amid the drooping flowers around, As if they turned their sighs to sound. Ah, magic! of a voice that seems To haunt the soul with hopes and dreams;”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) said by 1838 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Time, time only, can gradually wean us from our Epeolatry, or word-worship, by spiritualizing our ideas of the thing signified.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894) said by 1894 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Not in Chicago, in the heat of June, but at the ballot-boxes of the Republic, in the quiet of November, after the silence of deliberate judgment, will this question be settled. And now, gentlemen of the Convention, what do we want?”
James A. Garfield (1831–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) first seen 1798 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Simon Lee, st. 12 (1798)
“Chance generally favors the prudent.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) said by 1824 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She sighed for Agnes’ dreams, the sweetest of the year.”
John Keats (1795–1821) said by 1821 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, self-preservation in the other.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) first seen 1820 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On slavery, in a letter to John Holmes (22 April 1820)
“As to tenant-right, I may be allowed to say that I think it is equivalent to landlords' wrong.”
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865) first seen 1865 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons (27 February 1865). The origin of the famous epigram, "Tenant right is landlord wrong.
“A prince should suspect everything.”
Napoleon (1769–1821) said by 1821 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation.”
Anne Brontë (1820–1849) said by 1849 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Where is he, the champion and the child Of all that's great or little, wise or wild; Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones; Whose table earth — whose dice were human bones?”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.”
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) first seen 1861 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Democracy" (1861)
“I am sure you will like it, it is such a fine business [art-dealer].. ..I am so glad that we shall both be in the same profession [art dealing] and in the same firm [Goupil and Co.]”
Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) first seen 1872 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote in his letter to brother Theo from The Hague, The Netherlands (13 December 1872); as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935, p. 17 (letter 2)
“I well knew that to propose something which would be called extreme, was the true way not to impede but to facilitate a more moderate experiment.”
John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) said by 1873 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source