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Said in the 1800s

• “The labour-power is a commodity, not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he can continuously repeat its sale; it functions as capital after its sale, in the hands of the capitalist, during the process of production itself.”

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

• “Allora senti che la fantasia, quella inesauribile fantasia, alla fine si stanca, si esaurisce in quella tensione permanente perché maturata, abbandona gli ideali presognati: essi cadono in polvere, si spezzano in frammenti; e se non esiste un'altra vita, allora ci tocca di costruirla con questi frammenti. (San Paolo 1999, p. 27)”

  Fëdor Dostoevskij (1821–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “And the Shadow of the Night and not Love was departed; I was sore, I was weary, yet Love lived to seek; So I scaled the dark mountains, and wandered sad-hearted Over wearier wastes, where e'en sunlight was bleak, With no rest of the night for my soul waxen weak.”

  William Morris (1834–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We always lose the friendship of those who lose our esteem.”

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

• “Quasi sempre gli errori di una donna derivano dalla sua fede nel bene o nel vero. (1994, p. 147)”

  Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) said by 1850 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The Supreme Court has surrendered. State sovereignty is restored. It has destroyed the civil rights Bill, and converted the Republican party into a party of money rather than a party of morals, a party of things rather than a party of humanity and justice. We may well ask what next?”

  Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) said by 1895 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Finché resta Shakespeare la Letteratura è salda. (a T. W. Higginson, novembre 1871, 368)”

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

• “The force of the word World, as commonly used, of itself falls in with us. For no one will attribute accidents to the World as parts, but as determinations, states; hence the so-called world of the ego, unrestrained by the single substance and its accidents, is not very appositely called a World, unless, perhaps, an imaginary one.”

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

• “Ciò che non è leggermente difforme ha l'aria insensibile; – da questo deriva che l'irregolarità, cioè l'inatteso, la sorpresa, lo stupore, sono una parte essenziale e la caratteristica della bellezza. (VIII, 12)”

  Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) said by 1867 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Let us labor to add all needful guarantees for the more perfect security of free thought, free speech, and free press, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and of equal rights and privileges to all men, irrespective of nationality, color, or religion.”

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

• “Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs — To the silent wilderness Where the soul need not repress Its music lest it should not find An echo in another's mind.”

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

• “No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.”

  Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Ein echter deutscher Mann mag keinen Franzen leiden,<br”

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

• “Che ogni uomo renda noto quale tipo di governo farebbe nascere in lui il rispetto: sarà il primo passo per riuscire ad averlo. (1992, p. 13)”

  Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) said by 1862 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I know how vain it is to gild a grief with words, and yet I wish to take from every grave its fear. Here in this world, where life and death are equal kings, all should be brave enough to meet what all the dead have met. The future has been filled with fear, stained and polluted by the heartless past.”

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

• “«Polly, vecchia mia,» disse Toodle «non l'ho detto mica in parti­colare per Rob, davvero. Parto leggero con Rob, arrivo a una dira­mazione, prendo a bordo quello che ci trovo, e tutto un treno di idee ci si aggancia, prima che sappia dove mi trovo, o da dove vengono quelle idee. Guarda te che nodo ferroviario sono i pen­sieri di un uomo, davvero!» (cap. XXXVIII)”

  Charles Dickens (1812–1870) said by 1870 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?”

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

• “Cornelia: Al giusto nuoce | Chi al malvagio perdona; e ti ricorda | Che comun benefizio è la vendetta | De' beneficj. (Atto IV, p. 185)”

  Vincenzo Monti (1754–1828) said by 1828 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Col tuo celeste canto l'Amore sveli | l'Amor che nulla teme, che s'addormenta | e si oblia sul cuore del suo Dio, qual bimbo.”

  Teresa di Lisieux (1873–1897) said by 1897 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Das Alte stürzt, es ändert sich die Zeit, Und neues Leben blüht aus den Ruinen.”

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

• “Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.”

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

  Also quoted by: Henry W. Longfellow

• “I believe... that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.”

  Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) first seen 1816 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Letter to John Adams (1816)

• “They know there must be May within the year, Else would they never dream that May was here.”

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) first seen 1832 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: (12th May 1832) Our Present May

• “If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.”

  Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) said by 1862 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Pearls of Thought (1881) p. 222