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• “Earth with her thousand voices praises God.”

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source

• “वर्तमान जीवन का कार्य अन्धविश्वास पर पूर्ण विश्वास से अधिक महत्त्वपूर्ण है।”

  दयानन्द सरस्वती (1824–1883) said by 1883 at the latest wikiquote:hi, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again.”

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

• “I needed to be made to feel that there was real, permanent happiness in tranquil contemplation. Wordsworth taught me this, not only without turning away from, but with a greatly increased interest in the common feelings and common destiny of human beings.”

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

• “In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line.”

  Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) first seen 1883 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Speech at the Convention of Colored Men, Louisville, Kentucky (24 September 1883).

• “Words, like glass, darken whatever they do not help us to see.”

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

• “जीवन छोटा है, लेकिन शिष्टाचार के लिए हमेशा पर्याप्त समय होता है।”

  राल्फ वाल्डो इमर्सन (1803–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote:hi, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.”

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

• “I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came.”

  James A. Garfield (1831–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: As quoted in The Power of Choice (2007) by Joyce Guccione, p. 49

• “Poetry must be new as foam, and as old as the rock.”

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) first seen 1845 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: March 1845

• “You don't know, perhaps, but I will tell you; the brain is the palest of all the internal organs, and the heart the reddest. Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace.”

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

• “All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.”

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

• “No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted.”

  Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) first seen 1862 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Battle of Fort Donelson Feb 1862 as quoted in "United States of America,” by Frank Freidel and Hugh Sidey, White House Historical Association, 2006 Whitehouse.gov

• “The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart, When the full river of feeling overflows.”

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

• “Our liberty is neither Greek nor Roman; but essentially English. It has a character of its own,—a character which has taken a tinge from the sentiments of the chivalrous ages, and which accords with the peculiarities of our manners and of our insular situation. It has a language, too, of its own, and a language singularly idiomatic, full of meaning to ourselves, scarcely intelligible to strangers.”

  Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859) first seen 1828 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: 'History', The Edinburgh Review (May 1828), quoted in The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay, Vol. I (1860), pp. 252-253

• “The art of war consists in being always able, even with an inferior army, to have stronger forces than the enemy at the point of attack or the point which is attacked.”

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

• “The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals.”

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

• “The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.”

  James Madison (1751–1836) first seen 1794 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Speech, House of Representatives, during the debate "On the Memorial of the Relief Committee of Baltimore, for the Relief of St. Domingo Refugees" (10 January 1794)

• “[...] allzustraff gespannt zerspringt der Bogen.”

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

• “This paper will serve instead of a confidential friend into whose ear I might pour forth the overflowings of my heart. It will not sympathise with my distresses, but then it will not laugh at them, and, if I keep it close, it cannot tell again; so it is, perhaps, the best friend I could have for the purpose.”

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

• “All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.”

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

• “There be none of Beauty's daughters With a magic like thee; And like music on the waters Is thy sweet voice to me.”

  Lord Byron (1788–1824) first seen 1816 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Stanzas for Music, st. 1 (1816).

• “Nothing like a little judicious levity.”

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) first seen 1889 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Wrong Box, ch. 7 (1889).

• “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