Speech · Political speechThe life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.Frederick Douglass1885★ 3.8
SpeechYou may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion that has breathed upon this earth, has degraded woman. There is not one that has not always made her subject to man.Elizabeth Cady Stanton1885★ 3.6
Novel · Adventure novelOut of the dark we came, into the dark we go... Life is nothing. Life is all. It is the hand with which we hold off death. It is the glow-worm that shines in the night-time and is black in the morning; it is the white breath of the oxen in the winter; it is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself at sunset.H. Rider HaggardKing Solomon's Mines · 1885★ 3.5
LetterI think the peasant girl is more beautiful than a lady, in her dusty, patched blue skirt and bodice, which get the most delicate hues from weather, wind, and sun. But if she puts on a lady's dress, she loses her peculiar charm.Vincent van Gogh1885★ 2.0
Personal journalPeople say the native stands on the edge of a chasm. It is not he who stands on the edge of a chasm; his claims are not false. They are just... Every step the Indian takes is based on a profound sense of fairness.Louis Riel1885★ 1.9
These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly fettered by some generous beliefs and impositions; and for no word however nobly sounding, and no cause however just and pious, to relax the stricture of these bonds.Robert Louis Stevenson1885★ 1.9
LetterThe best pictures, and from a technical point of view, the most complete, seen from nearby, are but patches of color next to each other, and only make and effect at a certain distance.Vincent van Gogh1885★ 1.2
The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes, and he annexes everything.Oscar Wilde1885★ 1.1
Speech · Political speechEvery citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity and usefulness.Grover ClevelandFirst Inaugural Address of Grover Cleveland · 1885★ 1.1
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