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A Christmas Carol · 1843

★ 8.0

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

Soren Kierkegaard

Either Or · 1843

★ 7.0

Novel

Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire, secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.

Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol · 1843

★ 5.5

Philosophical literature

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations-one can do either this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it-you will regret both.

Soren Kierkegaard

Either/Or · 1843

★ 5.3

"A fair day's-wages for a fair day's work:" it is as just a demand as Governed men ever made of Governing. It is the everlasting right of man.

Thomas Carlyle

Past and Present · 1843

★ 5.3

Speech

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

William Lloyd Garrison

1843

★ 5.3

Scientific literature

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths.

Ada Lovelace

1843

★ 4.4

The advancement of the arts from year to year taxes our credulity, and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end.

Henry L. Ellsworth

1843

★ 4.3

Legal opinion · Legal writing

To establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.

Nicholas Conyngham Tindal

M'Naghten's Case · 1843

★ 4.3

Novel

No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunities misused!

Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol · 1843

★ 4.0

Novel

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.

Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol · 1843

★ 4.0

Personal journal

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1843

★ 3.8

Essay · Philosophical literature

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.

Soren Kierkegaard

Fear and Trembling · 1843

★ 3.8

Fire is the best of servants; but what a master!

Thomas Carlyle

Past and Present · 1843

★ 3.7

Poem

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

Gerard de Nerval

1843

★ 3.6

Philosophical literature

What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.

Soren Kierkegaard

Either Or · 1843

★ 3.6

Religious literature · Philosophical literature

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence, and they think they have seen something.

Soren Kierkegaard

1843

★ 3.6

Travel writing

Whoever has really seen Russia will find himself content to live anywhere else. It is always good to know that a society exists where no happiness is possible because, by a law of nature, man cannot be happy unless he is free.

Astolphe de Custine

La Russie en 1839 · 1843

★ 3.5

Novella

I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year.

Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol · 1843

★ 3.1

Philosophical literature

The absurd... The fact that with God everything is possible. The absurd does not belong to the distinctions that lie within the proper compass of the understanding. It is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.

Soren Kierkegaard

Fear and Trembling · 1843

★ 2.9

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