1820s · Skopia

Showing 127 quotes from the 1820s

How little do we know that which we are! How less what we may be!

Don Juan · 1824

★ 7.5

Letter · Political writing

The boisterous sea of liberty indeed is never without a wave.

Thomas Jefferson

1820

★ 7.3

I am ashes where once I was fire.

1824

★ 7.1

Play · Tragic play

You have deeply ventured; But all must do so who would greatly win.

1821

★ 7.1

Political literature

The American continents... Are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.

1823 State of the Union · 1823

★ 7.0

Play · Tragic play

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

1821

★ 6.9

Alcohol is the prince of liquids, and carries the palate to its highest pitch of exaltation.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The Physiology of Taste · 1825

★ 6.9

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring-not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.

Clement Clarke Moore

A Visit from St. Nicholas · 1823

★ 6.8

Facts are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract truth which interpenetrates them, and lies latent among them, like gold in the ore, that the mass derives its whole value: and the precious particles are generally combined with the baser in such a manner that the separation is a task of the utmost difficulty.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

1828

★ 6.0

The groves were God's first temples.

William Cullen Bryant

A Forest Hymn · 1824

★ 5.3

There's not a string attuned to mirth But has its chord in melancholy.

Ode to Melancholy · 1827

★ 5.3

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

William Hazlitt

On Going on a Journey · 1822

★ 5.2

Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one.

Walter Savage Landor

1825

★ 5.2

Brothers, I have listened to a great many talks from our great father. But they always began and ended in this: "Get a little further; you are too near me."

1829

★ 5.2

There is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be, In the cold grave-under the deep, deep sea.

Silence · 1827

★ 5.1

There are seasons, in human affairs, of inward and outward revolution, when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul, when new wants are unfolded in multitudes, and a new and undefined good is thirsted for. These are periods when... To dare is the highest wisdom.

William Ellery Channing

1829

★ 5.1

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern-why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?

William Hazlitt

1822

★ 5.0

Letter · Political writing

Speeches measured by the hour, die with the hour.

Thomas Jefferson

1824

★ 4.7

Marriage must ceaselessly combat a monster that devours everything: habit.

Honore de Balzac

Physiologie du Mariage · 1829

★ 4.5

A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

William Hazlitt

1821

★ 4.3

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