Date: 1796
"It was expected that he would have re-asserted the justice of his cause; that he would have re-animated whatever remained to him of his allies, and endeavoured to recover those whom their fears had led astray; that he would have re-kindled the martial ardour of his citizens; that he would have h...
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1796
"It is the common doom of man that he must eat his bread by the sweat of his brow, that is, by the sweat of his body, or the sweat of his mind."
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1796
"Conscience is formally deposed from its dominion over the mind."
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1891
"For what is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?"
preview | full record— Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills (1854-1900)
Date: 1924
"But circumstance cannot deepen or lighten the colour of a man’s mind; if we bring anything into the world it is the colour of our minds, and what is the colour of our minds but fate? and what is fate but character?"
preview | full record— Moore, George Augustus (1852-1933)
Date: w. 1943, 1944
"The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only be reading old books."
preview | full record— Lewis, C. S. (1898-1963)