Quotes · Skopia

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Whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.

Sir Walter Raleigh

1618

★ 1.0

If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

Joshua Reynolds

1769

★ 1.0

In looking at objects of Nature while I am thinking, as at yonder moon dim-glimmering through the dewy window-pane, I seem rather to be seeking, as it were asking for, a symbolical language for something within me that already and for ever exists, than observing anything new.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1805

★ 1.0

Personal journal

Great God! this is an awful place.

Robert Falcon Scott

1912

★ 1.0

Then shun, oh! shun that wretched state And all the fawning flatterers hate: Value yourselves, and men despise You must be proud if you'll be wise.

To the Ladies · 1703

★ 1.1

But times do change and move continually.

Sir Walter Raleigh

The Faerie Queens · 1599

★ 1.2

Summer has set in with its usual severity.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1826

★ 1.2

The mind is but a barren soil; is a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.

Joshua Reynolds

1774

★ 1.8

Alteration though it be from worse to better hath in it inconveniences, and those weighty.

1593

★ 1.9

Historical literature

O eloquent, just, and mighty Death!... Thou hast drawn together all the farstretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet (here lies).

Sir Walter Raleigh

1614

★ 1.9

If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispelled when a woman appears.

The Beggar's Opera · 1728

★ 1.9

The Good consists in the congruity of a thing with the laws of the reason and the nature of the will, and in its fitness to determine the latter to actualize the former: and it is always discursive. The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1814

★ 1.9

You may depend upon it, that a slight contrast of character is very material to happiness in marriage.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1834

★ 1.9

Praising all alike, is praising none.

1714

★ 1.9

A woman's friendship ever ends in love.

1720

★ 1.9

They'll tell thee, sailors, when away, In ev'ry port a mistress find.

1720

★ 1.9

Youth's the season made for joys, Love is then our duty.

The Beggar's Opera · 1728

★ 1.9

Women and wine should life employ. Is there ought else on earth desirous?

The Beggar's Opera · 1728

★ 1.9

That politician tops his part, Who readily can lie with art.

1732

★ 1.9

Poem · Narrative poem

Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798

★ 1.9

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