1862 · Skopia

Showing 28 works across all media from 1862

Fiction · Historical fiction

Les Miserables

1862 · 1260 pages

Jean Valjean serves nineteen years for stealing bread, breaks parole, and is hunted the rest of his life by a relentless policeman. Around them Hugo builds the century's great argument for mercy.

★ 8.8

Fathers and Sons

1862 · 215 pages

Home from university, Arkady brings his friend Bazarov, who believes in nothing but science and refuses to respect anyone. Turgenev made the word nihilist famous and named a quarrel every family keeps having.

★ 7.2

Essay · Philosophical literature · Political literature

A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for...is a miserable creature, who has no chance of being free.

John Stuart Mill

1862

★ 7.0

Speech · Political speech

The destiny of the colored American…is the destiny of America.

Frederick Douglass

1862

★ 6.3

The vague, crepuscular time; the time of regrets that resemble hopes, of hopes that resemble regrets, when youth has passed, but old age has not yet arrived.

Fathers and Sons · 1862

★ 6.1

Speech · Political speech

Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

Abraham Lincoln

1862

★ 5.5

Political literature

I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.

Abraham Lincoln

Emancipation Proclamation · 1862

★ 5.5

Essay · Magazine

If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down!

Henry David Thoreau

Life Without Principle · 1862

★ 5.3

It is not the prize that can make us happy; it is not even the winning of the prize....[It is] the struggle, the long hot hour of the honest fight.... There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

Anthony Trollope

Orley Farm · 1862

★ 4.3

Take away time is money, and what is left of England? Take away cotton is king, and what is left of America?

Les Miserables · 1862

★ 3.9

Personal journal

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time.

Abraham Lincoln

1862

★ 3.7

Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land.

Christina Rossetti

1862

★ 3.7

To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible punishment so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

House of the Dead · 1862

★ 3.7

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

1862

★ 3.7

No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

Ulysses S. Grant

1862

★ 3.7

Speech · Political speech

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free—honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth.

Abraham Lincoln

1862

★ 3.7

For there is no friend like a sister In calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray, To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen while one stands.

Christina Rossetti

1862

★ 3.5

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Anthony Trollope

1862

★ 3.5

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers.

Les Miserables · 1862

★ 3.0

Speech · Political speech

The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.

Abraham Lincoln

Second Annual Message to Congress · 1862

★ 2.9

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