1630s · Skopia

Showing 38 quotes from the 1630s

Philosophical literature

I think, therefore I am.

Discourse on Method · 1637

★ 9.1

Living well is the best revenge.

Jacula Prudentum · 1633

★ 6.9

Play · Tragicomedy

To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.

Pierre Corneille

Le Cid · 1636

★ 6.9

Religious literature

Whether a Million of Angels may not sit upon a needle's point?

William Chillingworth

1637

★ 6.9

We must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are on us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.

1630

★ 6.9

Philosophical literature

Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.

Discourse on Method · 1637

★ 5.4

His bark is worse than his bite.

Jacula Prudentum · 1633

★ 5.3

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

Galileo Galilei

1638

★ 5.3

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

1631

★ 3.7

Philosophical literature

The reading of good books is like a conversation with the best men of past centuries-in fact like a prepared conversation, in which they reveal only the best of their thoughts.

Discourse on Method · 1637

★ 3.7

We must bear one another's burdens, we must not look only on our own things but also on the things of our brethren.

1630

★ 3.6

No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnal face.

1631

★ 3.6

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

Jacula Prudentum · 1633

★ 3.6

Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.

Jacula Prudentum · 1633

★ 3.6

Play · Masque (play)

Yet where an equal poise of hope and fear Does arbitrate the event, my nature is That I incline to hope rather than fear, And gladly banish squint suspicion.

1634

★ 3.6

So sinks the day-star in the Ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new spangled Ore, Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.

1638

★ 3.6

Personal journal

Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.

William Bradford

Of Plymouth Plantation · 1630

★ 3.5

A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain.

1633

★ 3.5

For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.

Outlandish Proverbs · 1633

★ 3.5

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, When once it is within thee.

The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations · 1633

★ 3.5

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