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Said in the 1800s

• “In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command.”

  Herman Melville (1819–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Thank Heaven! the crisis — The danger is past, And the lingering illness Is over at last — And the fever called "Living" Is conquered at last.”

  Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) first seen 1849 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: For Annie", st. 1 (1849).

• “הדרך הטובה ביותר לקיים הבטחה היא לא להבטיח אותה.”

  נפוליאון בונפרטה (1769–1821) said by 1821 at the latest wikiquote:he, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Take ye my solemn farewell ! O, my friends, Already night is darkening on my eyes ;— But is not Heaven most beautiful by night ? Thousands of stars shine in the kindling sky, Which is an azure desert during day. Thus do the gathering of eternal shades Reveal innumerable thoughts, half lost In the full daylight of prosperity.”

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

• “Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam.”

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) first seen 1853 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: December 1853

• “The sin I impute to each frustrute ghost Is—the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say.”

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

• “Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.”

  Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) said by 1826 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source

• “The life of God — the life which the mind apprehends and enjoys as it rises to the absolute unity of all things — may be described as a play of love with itself; but this idea sinks to an edifying truism, or even to a platitude, when it does not embrace in it the earnestness, the pain, the patience, and labor, involved in the negative aspect of things.”

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) said by 1831 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat gray-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud.”

  John Keats (1795–1821) said by 1821 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.”

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

• “Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.”

  Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Thomas B. Macaulay

• “מאשימים אותם בסנסואליזם, את אותם פסלים היוצרים נשים ממשיות עם שדיים שיכלו לתת חלב ומותניים שיכלו להרות. בעוד שאילו היו יוצרים אריגי כותנה מקושקשים ודמיות שטוחות כתמרורי דרכים היו קוראים להם אידיאליסטים, ספיריטואליסטים.”

  גוסטב פלובר (1821–1880) said by 1880 at the latest wikiquote:he, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Here is the desert. In this silence, everything speaks to me: and in your noise, everything falls silent.”

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

• “The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity affecting the whole body of science, known, it is true, to men of insight, but not generally admitted.”

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

• “When I came out of the hospital with kind old Roulin I thought that there had been nothing wrong with me, but afterwards I felt I had been ill. Well, well, there are moments when I am wrung by enthusiasm or madness or prophecy like a Greek oracle on a tripod.. .Everyone suffers here either from fever, or hallucination, or madness, we understand each other like members of the same family.”

  Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) first seen 1889 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Quote in his letter to brother Theo, from Arles, France, 3 Febr. 1889; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935, (letter 576), p 25

• “The process is so complicated that it offers ever so many occasions for running abnormally.”

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

• “I met Murder on the way — He had a mask like Castlereagh — Very smooth he looked, yet grim; Seven blood-hounds followed him.”

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) said by 1822 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Evening is like old age: we are languid, talkative, silly. Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) said by 1860 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “While all these are disturbed and divided by the multifarious objects to which their thoughts must be applied, the Philosopher pursues, in solitary silence and in unbroken concentration of mind, his single and undeviating course towards the Good, the Beautiful, and the True; and that is his daily labour, to which others can only resort at times for rest and refreshment after toil.”

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814) said by 1814 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?”

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859) first seen 1831 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Letter to Ernest de Chabrol, 9 June 1831 Selected Letters, ed. Roger Boesche, UofC Press 1985, p. 39.

• “Alles, was ausser dem guten Lebenswandel der Mensch noch thun zu können vermeint, um Gott wohlgefällig zu werden, ist blosser Religionswahn und Afterdienst Gottes.”

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

• “Them that die will be the lucky ones!”

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) said by 1894 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Half light, half shade, She stood, a sight to make an old man young.”

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) first seen 1842 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Gardener's Daughter", l. 139-140 (1842)

• “I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind—and all the worse for the fishes.”

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894) first seen 1860 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Statement at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society (30 May 1860), in Medical Communications of the Massachusetts Medical Society, vol. 9 (1860) pp. 337–8