1839 · Skopia

Showing 10 quotes from 1839

Play · History play

The pen is mightier than the sword.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

1839

★ 9.5

Personal journal

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Henry David Thoreau

1839

★ 3.8

Personal journal

With the Past as past I have nothing to do, nor with the Future as future. I live now.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1839

★ 3.8

Hell is more bearable than nothingness.

Philip James Bailey

1839

★ 3.6

Speech · Political speech

The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Abraham Lincoln

1839

★ 2.1

Personal journal

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it come to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Henry David Thoreau

1839

★ 1.9

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

William Hazlitt

1839

★ 1.9

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

William Hazlitt

On Prejudice · 1839

★ 1.9

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility.

Thomas De Quincey

1839

★ 1.8

Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues—faith and hope.

Charles Dickens

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby · 1839

★ 1.2