1790s · Skopia

Showing 156 quotes from the 1790s

Philosophical literature · Political literature

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Rights of Man · 1792

★ 7.3

Poem · Philosophical literature

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1793

★ 7.3

Poem · Philosophical literature

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1793

★ 7.3

Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the Spirit of Party, generally.

George Washington

1796

★ 7.1

Political literature

No man chooses evil, because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication of the Rights of Men · 1790

★ 7.1

Political literature

A state without some means of change is without the means of its own conservation.

Reflections on the Revolution in France · 1790

★ 7.0

Political literature

Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

Reflections on the Revolution in France · 1790

★ 7.0

Treatise · Philosophical literature

The most perfect of all works of art is true political freedom.

Friedrich Schiller

1794

★ 7.0

Speech · Funeral oration

First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.

1799

★ 6.9

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a feather-bed.

Thomas Jefferson

1790

★ 6.3

Autobiography and memoir

You will laugh when you learn that I thought nothing of deceiving idiots, scoundrels and fools when I needed to do so. As for my deceptions of women, these are not of the sort to be tallied, since when love has a hand in things, each party usually dupes the other.

Giacomo Casanova

Histoire de Ma Vie · 1791

★ 6.0

Poem · Philosophical literature

The cistern contains: the fountain overflows.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1794

★ 5.5

Poem · Philosophical literature

For every thing that lives is Holy.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1794

★ 5.5

I was angry with my friend; I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe; I told it not, my wrath did grow.

Songs of Experience · 1794

★ 5.5

Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

Songs of Experience · 1794

★ 5.5

The guests are met, the feast is set: May'st hear the merry din?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798

★ 5.5

Philosophical literature · Political literature

The American Constitutions were to Liberty what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax.

Rights of Man · 1791

★ 5.4

Philosophical literature · Political literature

I compare it to something behind a curtain, about which there is a great deal of bustle and fuss, and a wonderful air of seeming solemnity; but when by an accident, the curtain happens to be opened, and the company see what it is, they burst into laughter.

Rights of Man · 1792

★ 5.4

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise.

1792

★ 5.4

Love to faults is always blind, Always is to joy inclin'd, Lawless, wing'd, and unconfin'd, And breaks all chains from every mind.

1792

★ 5.4

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