Travel writingThe soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.William HazlittOn Going on a Journey · 1822★ 5.2
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 Hazlitt1822★ 5.0
Essay · Economic literatureThere is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.David Ricardo1822★ 3.7
LetterA popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both.James Madison1822★ 3.7
PoemAway, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs.Percy Bysshe ShelleyTo Jane: The Invitation · 1822★ 3.7
LetterIndividual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation.John Quincy Adams1822★ 3.5
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.Percy Bysshe ShelleyA Defense of Poetry · 1822★ 2.0
PoemLet there be light! said Liberty, And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose!Percy Bysshe Shelley1822★ 1.9
EssayWith the present system of education for girls any genius who happens to be born a woman can make no contribution to public happiness.Stendhal1822★ 1.9
Essay · Economic literatureNothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.David Ricardo1822★ 1.1
PoemLondon, that great sea, whose ebb and flow At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more.Percy Bysshe Shelley1822★ 1.1
Travel writingOne of the pleasantest things in the world is going a journey, but I like to go by myself. I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone.William HazlittOn Going on a Journey · 1822★ 0.9
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