1813 · Skopia

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Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 7.8

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

Thomas Jefferson

1813

★ 6.2

Novel

You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 5.6

Personal journal

When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation),—sleep, eating, and swilling—buttoning and unbuttoning—how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.

Lord Byron

1813

★ 5.3

Novel

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 4.9

Novel

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 4.0

Novel

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 4.0

Novel

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 4.0

Novel

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 3.9

Novel

Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and, however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 3.9

Letter

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

Thomas Jefferson

1813

★ 3.9

Letter

I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Thomas Jefferson

1813

★ 3.8

Letter

You and I, ought not to die, before We have explained ourselves to each other.

John Adams

1813

★ 3.7

Novel

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 2.4

Novel

What are men to rocks and mountains?

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 2.4

Novel

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 2.4

Novel

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 2.3

Novel

There is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 2.3

Novel

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 2.2

Letter

The fundamental Article of my political Creed is, that Despotism, or unlimited Sovereignty, or absolute Power is the same in a Majority of a popular Assembly, and Aristocratical Counsel, an Oligarchical Junto and a Single Emperor.

John Adams

1813

★ 1.9

Poem

Look back, and smile at perils past!

Sir Walter Scott

1813

★ 1.9

Religious literature

Whether we consider the manual industry of the poor, or the intellectual exertions of the superior classes, we shall find that diligent occupation, if not criminally perverted from its end, is at once the instrument of virtue and the secret of happiness. Man cannot be safely trusted with a life of leisure.

Hannah More

1813

★ 1.9

Poem

Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame, A mechanized automation.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Queen Mab · 1813

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

Our country abounds in the necessaries, the arts, and the comforts of life. A general prosperity is visible in the public countenance.

James Madison

Second Inaugural Address of James Madison · 1813

★ 1.3

Speech · Political speech

To render the war short and its success sure, animated and systematic exertions alone are necessary, and the success of our arms now may long preserve our country from the necessity of another resort to them.

James Madison

Second Inaugural Address of James Madison · 1813

★ 1.2

You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king: and... You must hate "a Frenchman as you hate the devil."

Horatio Nelson

1813

★ 1.1