1840 · Skopia

Showing 26 quotes from 1840

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

Thomas H. Palmer

1840

★ 6.9

Political literature

Religious insanity is very common in the United States.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America · 1840

★ 6.4

Political literature

Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within the solitude of his own heart.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America · 1840

★ 6.2

Political literature

The love of wealth is therefore to be traced, as either a principal or accessory motive, at the bottom of all that the Americans do; this gives to all their passions a sort of family likeness.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America · 1840

★ 6.2

Political literature

Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be; in this direction their unbounded imagination grows and dilates beyond all measure.... Democracy, which shuts the past against the poet, opens the future before him.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America · 1840

★ 5.4

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Thomas Carlyle

On Heroes · 1840

★ 5.4

It is not what a man outwardly has or wants that constitutes the happiness or misery of him. Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

Thomas Carlyle

Chartism · 1840

★ 5.2

Burke said there were three estates in parliament; but, in the reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

Thomas Carlyle

On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic · 1840

★ 5.2

Political literature

At every step the natural light which illuminates their path grows dimmer and less secure; and that, in spite of all their efforts, they have as yet only discovered a small number of conflicting notions, on which the mind of man has been tossed about for thousands of years, without either laying a firmer grasp on truth, or finding novelty even in its errors.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America · 1840

★ 3.9

Political literature

Providence has not created mankind entirely independent or entirely free. It is true that around every man a fatal circle is traced, beyond which he cannot pass; but within the wide verge of that circle he is powerful and free.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America · 1840

★ 3.8

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1840

★ 3.8

Political literature · Philosophical literature

Property is theft.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

1840

★ 3.7

Cash Payment has become the sole nexus of man to men!

Thomas Carlyle

Chartism · 1840

★ 3.7

I slept and dreamed that life was beauty. I woke-and found that life was duty.

Ellen Sturgis Hooper

Beauty and Duty · 1840

★ 3.6

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

Amos Bronson Alcott

1840

★ 3.5

Poem · Magazine

His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Knickerbocker · 1840

★ 2.7

Political literature

Of all nations, those submit to civilization with the most difficulty which habitually live by the chase.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America · 1840

★ 2.2

Political literature

There are, at the present time, two great nations in the world, which seem to tend towards the same end, although they started from different points; I allude to the Russians and the Americans... Their starting point is different, and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems to be marked out by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America · 1840

★ 2.1

Poem · Magazine

Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Knickerbocker · 1840

★ 2.0

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Thomas Carlyle

On Heroes · 1840

★ 2.0

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