1800s · Skopia

Showing 87 quotes from the 1800s

Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

1805

★ 7.3

Poem

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

William Blake

1807

★ 7.2

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men.

John Marshall

Marbury v. Madison · 1803

★ 7.0

Poem

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour

William Blake

Auguries of Innocence · 1803

★ 7.0

To govern is to choose.

Pierre-Marc-Gaston de Levis

1808

★ 6.9

Poem

O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!

Sir Walter Scott

1808

★ 6.9

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that Fate and character are the same conception.

Novalis

1802

★ 6.9

Play · Tragedy (play) · Tragedy

Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.

Friedrich Schiller

The Maid of Orleans · 1801

★ 6.2

Novel

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Elective Affinities · 1808

★ 6.2

Play · Tragedy (play) · Tragedy

Who strives always to the utmost, For him there is salvation.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faust · 1808

★ 5.6

Letter

I have sworn upon the altar of god, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Thomas Jefferson

1800

★ 5.5

Poem

And throughout all eternity I forgive you, you forgive me.

William Blake

1804

★ 5.5

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is... If two laws conflict with each other, the Courts must decide on the operation of each... This is of the very essence of judicial duty.

John Marshall

Marbury v. Madison · 1803

★ 5.4

Play · Drama (play) · Drama

Who reflects too much will accomplish little.

Friedrich Schiller

1804

★ 5.4

Poem

Man was made for joy and woe, And when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go.

William Blake

1805

★ 5.4

Poem

Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither.

William Wordsworth

Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollection of Early Childhood · 1807

★ 5.3

FIRST LAW: In every animal... A more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually strengthens, develops and enlarges that organ... While the permanent disuse of any organ imperceptibly weakens and deteriorates it, and progressively diminishes its functional capacity, until it finally disappears. SECOND LAW: All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature in individuals... Are preserved by reproductions to the new individuals which arise.

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Philosophie Zoologique · 1809

★ 5.2

Speech · Political speech

If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Thomas Jefferson

First Inaugural Address of Thomas Jefferson · 1801

★ 4.6

Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of every thing; and in no instance is this more true, than in that of the press. It has accordingly been decided by the practice of the States, that it is better to leave a few of its noxious branches to their luxuriant growth, than by pruning them away, to injure the vigor of those yielding the proper fruits.

James Madison

1800

★ 4.5

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

Certainly all those who have framed written Constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be that an act of the Legislature repugnant to the Constitution is void.

John Marshall

Marbury v. Madison · 1803

★ 4.5

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