Explore 573 quotes from the 17th century

Shakespeare, William. "Macbeth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 3.

Donne, John. "From a sermon preached at Whitehall (8 March 1622)." John Donne: The Major Works: Including Songs and Sonnets and Sermons, edited by John Carey. Oxford University Press, 2009.

Locke, John. Second Treatise of Civil Government, edited by C. B. Macpherson. Hackett Publishing Company, 1980, introduction.

Milton, John. "Samson Agonistes." Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and the Complete Shorter Poems, edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich, and Stephen M. Fallon. Modern Library, 2012, I. 293.

Cruz, Juana Ines. "Satria filosofica." Poems, Protest and a Dream: Selected Writings, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. Penguin Books, 1997.

Dryden, John. "The Spanish Fryar." The Works of John Dryden, edited by Vinton A. Dearing and Alan Roper. Vol. 14, University of California Press, 1992, act 4, sc. 1.

Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Suspicion." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Shakespeare, William. "Macbeth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 2.

Descarte, René. "Meditations on First Philosophy." Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, translated by Donald A. Cress. Hackett Publishing, 1999, third meditation.

Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Regimen of Health." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Locke, John. "Some Thoughts Concerning Education." Some Thoughts Concerning Education and of the Conduct of the Understanding, edited by Ruth W. Grant and Nathan Tarcov. Hackett Publishing Company, 1996, sect. 70.

Jonson, Ben. "Sejanus." Ben Jonson: Five Plays, edited by G. A. Wilkes. Oxford University Press, 2009, act 2.

Locke, John. Second Treatise of Civil Government, edited by C. B. Macpherson. Hackett Publishing Company, 1980, ch. 9, sect. 124.

Donne, John. "Elegy: The Anagram." Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2007, I. 27.

Shakespeare, William. "Macbeth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 3.

Shakespeare, William. "Macbeth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 1.

Milton, John. "The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Locke, John. "Some Thoughts Concerning Education." Some Thoughts Concerning Education and of the Conduct of the Understanding, edited by Ruth W. Grant and Nathan Tarcov. Hackett Publishing Company, 1996, sect. 71.