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19th-Century  Quotes
[N]ow that I am drawing to the close of this work, in which I have spoken of so many important things done by the Americans, to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that...

—Alexis de Tocqueville

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19th-CenturyAmerican-CultureGender
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Above all, he encourages her to paint, nodding with approval at even her most unusual experiments with color, light, rough brushwork […]. She explains to him that she believes painting should reflect nature and life...

—Elizabeth Kostova

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19th-CenturyPainting
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Vronsky meanwhile, in spite of the complete fulfilment of what he had so long desired, was not completely happy. He soon felt that the realization of his longing gave him only one grain of the...

—Leo Tolstoy

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19th-CenturyNovelRealistic-Fiction
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(…) a ingenuidade se mantém como a indumentária de honra do gênio, assim como a nudez é a da beleza.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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19th-CenturyBeautyGeniality
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As for the comparatively small class of violent crimes against persons, unconnected with any idea of gain, they were almost wholly confined, even in your day, to the ignorant and bestial; and in these days,...

—Edward Bellamy

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19th-CenturyCrimeHilarious
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Among the people to whom he belonged, nothing was written or talked about at that time except the Serbian war. Everything that the idle crowd usually does to kill time, it now did for the...

—Leo Tolstoy

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19th-CenturyMannersNovel
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(…) assim como é preciso evitar uma sobrecarga de ornamentações na arquitetura, nas artes discursivas é preciso evitar sobretudo os floreios retóricos desnecessários, todas as amplificações inúteis e, acima de tudo, o que há de...

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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19th-CenturyNaivetySimplicity
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Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.

—Fred Whitehead

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19th-Century19th-Century-AmericaAmerican-History
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The emerging woman … will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied…strength and beauty must go together.

—Louisa May Alcott

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19th-CenturyFeminismLouisa-May-Alcott
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Assim, logo que nosso pensamento encontrou palavras, ele já deixa de ser algo íntimo, algo sério no nível mais profundo. Quando ele começa a existir para os outros, para de viver em nós, da mesma...

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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19th-CenturyLiterary-StudiesWriters-On-Thinking
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It’s part of my effort to expose Indian audiences to the works of Western composers of the 19th century who were strongly influenced by Oriental, specifically, Indian themes,

—Francis Wacziarg

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

—Lester B.

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A pena está para o pensamento como a bengala está para o andar. Da mesma maneira que se caminha com mais leveza sem bengala, o pensamento mais pleno se dá sem a pena. Apenas quando...

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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19th-CenturyWriters-On-ThinkingWriters-On-Writing
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Washington was no politician as we understand the word,” replied Ratcliffe abruptly. “He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn’t be done today. The people don’t like that sort of royal airs.

—Henry Adams

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19th-CenturyDemocracyPolitics
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I have found that those who try to shield us from the truth, regardless of the reason, end up doing the greatest harm. Truth alone sets you free, not lies and omissions.

—Jessica Dotta

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19th-CenturyGreat-BritainHistorical-Fiction
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Uma hipótese leva, na cabeça em que se estabeleceu ou mesmo na cabeça em que nasceu, uma vida comparável à de um organismo, já que assimila do mundo exterior apenas o que lhe é proveitoso...

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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19th-CenturyWriters-On-ThinkingWriters-On-Writing
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I had a dream about you. You were washing your car, and I was washing my horse. You thought I belonged in the 19th century, and I thought you belonged in a zoo. I wasn’t...

—Jarod Kintz

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19th-CenturyCarCar-Wash
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To the men and women who changed Cheryl Hersha’s life, she was a continuation of the research that had first been conducted in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by Dr. Morton Prince. He...

—Lynn Hersha

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19th-CenturyAbuseChild-Abuse
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Assim como todo excesso numa atividade costuma levar ao contrário do que se pretendia, as palavras servem de fato para tornar os pensamentos compreensíveis, mas só até certo ponto. Quando esse ponto é ultrapassado, elas...

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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19th-CenturyWriters-On-StyleWriters-On-Thinking
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But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.

—Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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19th-CenturyFictionRussian
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The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in...

—Oscar Wilde

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19th-CenturyCalibanNineteenth-Century
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A autentica concisão da expressão consiste em dizer apenas, em todos os casos, o que é digno de ser dito, com a justa distinção entre o que é necessário e o que é supérfluo, evitando...

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.

—Emma Thompson

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19th-CenturyActorsFilming
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The nineteenth was the first century of human sympathy, — the age when half wonderingly we began to descry in others that transfigured spark of divinity which we call Myself; when clodhoppers and peasants, and...

—W.E.B. Du

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19th-CenturyHumanenessPersonality
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(…) deve-se evitar toda prolixidade e todo entrelaçamento de observações que não valem o esforço da leitura. (…) É sempre melhor deixar de lado algo bom do que incluir algo insignificante. (…) Sobretudo, não dizer...

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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19th-CenturyWriters-On-Writing
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I look in the glass sometimes at my two long, cylindrical bags (so picturesquely rugged about the knees), my stand-up collar and billycock hat, and wonder what right I have to go about making God’s...

—Jerome K.

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19th-CenturyAppearanceBeauty
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In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)

—Virchand Gandhi

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19th-CenturyAncientBombay
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Gostaria que alguém tentasse escrever um dia uma história trágica da literatura, na qual expusesse como as diferentes nações, cada uma das quais deposita seu maior orgulho nos grandes escritores e artistas que tem a...

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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19th-CenturyArtists
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So he was queer, E.M. Forster. It wasn’t his middle name (that would be ‘Morgan’), but it was his orientation, his romping pleasure, his half-secret, his romantic passion. In the long-suppressed novel Maurice the title...

—Michael Levenson

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19th-CenturyClosetedComing-Out
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Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state for Jews (or a Jewish state; not quite the same thing, as I...

—Christopher Hitchens

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19th-CenturyAncestryAntisemitism
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The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities; the scientific progress was so gigantic that it seems rash to predict...

—Norman Lockyer

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19th-CenturyInfluenceLife
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