1820 · Skopia

Showing 28 quotes from 1820

Letter · Political writing

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

Thomas Jefferson

1820

★ 7.3

We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.

Thomas Jefferson

1820

★ 3.8

We have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

Thomas Jefferson

1820

★ 3.8

We have the wolf by the ears; and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

Thomas Jefferson

1820

★ 3.8

And still they were the same bright, patient stars.

1820

★ 3.7

Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings.

Lamia · 1820

★ 3.7

My soul is an enchanted boat, Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Prometheus Unbound · 1820

★ 3.7

Letter · Political writing

Dictionaries are but the depositories of words already legitimated by usage. Society is the work-shop in which new ones are elaborated. When an individual uses a new word, if illformed it is rejected in society, if well-informed, adopted, and, after due time, laid up in the depository of dictionaries.

Thomas Jefferson

1820

★ 3.7

Essay · Magazine

Not many sounds in life... Exceed in interest a knock at the door.

1820

★ 3.6

O time, arrest your flight! and you, propitious hours, arrest your course! Let us savor the fleeting delights of our most beautiful days.

Alphonse de Lamartine

The Lake · 1820

★ 3.5

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Charles Caleb Colton

1820

★ 3.5

Courtroom speech · Speech · Philosophical literature

An advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person in the world, that client and none other. To save that client... Is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties; And he must not regard the alarm, the suffering, the torment, the destruction which he may bring upon any other. Nay... He must go on reckless of the consequences, if his fate, it should unhappily be, to involve his country in confusion for his client's protection.

Henry Peter Brougham

1820

★ 3.5

Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too.

To Autumn · 1820

★ 2.8

Beauty is truth, truth beauty.

Annals of the Fine Arts for 1819 · 1820

★ 2.0

A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through the dim night of this immortal day.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Prometheus Unbound · 1820

★ 2.0

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Cloud · 1820

★ 2.0

That orbed maiden with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the Moon.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Cloud · 1820

★ 2.0

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion.

Thomas Jefferson

1820

★ 2.0

Only one being is wanting, and your whole world is bereft of people.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Les Meditations Poetiques · 1820

★ 1.9

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

Charles Caleb Colton

1820

★ 1.9

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Charles Caleb Colton

1820

★ 1.9

I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky. I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Cloud · 1820

★ 1.9

He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars; General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer: For art and science cannot exist but in the minutely organized particulars.

Jerusalem · 1820

★ 1.9

Poetry fettered fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed, or flourish, in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish!

Jerusalem · 1820

★ 1.9

We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

To a Skylark · 1820

★ 1.9

In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play, or looks at an American picture or statue?... Under which of the old tyrannical governments of Europe is every sixth man a slave, whom his fellow-creatures may buy, and sell and torture?

1820

★ 1.8

Autobiography and memoir

In love, the only safety lies in flight.

Napoleon Bonaparte

1820

★ 1.3

Poem · Magazine

I met a Lady in the Meads Full beautiful, a faery's child Her hair was long, her foot was light And her eyes were wild—

1820

★ 1.1