1630s

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I think, therefore I am.

René Descartes

Discourse on Method

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Topic

Nature of man

Author

René Descartes

Source

Discourse on Method

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

French

Time

1637 1630s 17th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Descartes, René [published anonymously]. Discours de la Méthode: Pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences [Discourse on Method: To Conduct Reason Well, and Seek Truth in the Sciences]. Leiden, 1637, pt. 4.

Current Citation

Descartes, René. Discourse on the Method, translated by Ian Maclean. Oxford University Press, 2008, pt. 4.

Living well is the best revenge.

George Herbert

Jacula Prudentum

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Living well Revenge

Author

George Herbert

Source

Jacula Prudentum

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1633 1630s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Herbert, George. Jacula Prudentum, or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Microform. London: Humphrey Blunden, 1640.

Current Citation

Herbert, George. "Outlandish Proverbs." Herbert: The Complete English Works, edited by Ann Pasternak Slater. Everyman's Library, 1995, no. 520.

Whether a Million of Angels may not sit upon a needle's point?

William Chillingworth

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Topic

Scholasticism Angels

Author

William Chillingworth

Source

The Religion of Protestants

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1637 1630s 17th century

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Citation

Chillingworth, William. The Religion of Protestants a Safe Way to Salvation. Oxford: Leonard Lichfield, 1638.

To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.

Pierre Corneille

Le Cid

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Topic

Winning Taking risks

Speaker

Don Gomes, Le Comte

Author

Pierre Corneille

Source

Le Cid

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragicomedy

Language

French

Time

1636 1630s 17th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Corneille, Pierre. Le Cid. Dec. 1636, Theatre du Marais, Paris, France, act 2, sc. 2.

Current Citation

Corneille, Pierre. "The Cid." The Cid, Cinna, The Theatrical Illusion, translated by John Cairncross. Penguin Classics, 1976.

We must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are on us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.

John Winthrop

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Topic

America as example America

Author

John Winthrop

Source

A Model of Christian Charity

Medium

Sermon

Language

English

Time

1630 1630s 17th century

Era

Colonial America

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Citation

Winthrop, John. "A Model of Christian Charity." 8 Apr. 1630, on board Arbella. Sermon.

Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.

René Descartes

Discourse on Method

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Topic

Common sense

Author

René Descartes

Source

Discourse on Method

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

French

Time

1637 1630s 17th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Descartes, René [published anonymously]. Discours de la Méthode: Pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences [Discourse on Method: To Conduct Reason Well, and Seek Truth in the Sciences]. Leiden, 1637, pt. 1.

Current Citation

Descartes, René. Discourse on the Method, translated by Ian Maclean. Oxford University Press, 2008, pt. 1.

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

Galileo Galilei

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Topic

Intellectual progress Scientific progress

Speaker

Sagredo

Author

Galileo Galilei

Language

Italian

Time

1638 1630s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Galilei, Galileo. "Giornata Prima [First Day]." Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche intorno a due nuove scienze [Discourses and Mathematicals Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences]. Leiden: Ludovico Elzeviro, 1638.

His bark is worse than his bite.

George Herbert

Jacula Prudentum

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Topic

Aggression

Author

George Herbert

Source

Jacula Prudentum

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1633 1630s 17th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Herbert, George. Jacula Prudentum, or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Microform. London: T. Garthwait, 1651.

The reading of good books is like a conversation with the best men of past centuries-in fact like a prepared conversation, in which they reveal only the best of their thoughts.

René Descartes

Discourse on Method

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Topic

Power of literature Books

Author

René Descartes

Source

Discourse on Method

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

French

Time

1637 1630s 17th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Descartes, René [published anonymously]. Discours de la Méthode: Pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences [Discourse on Method: To Conduct Reason Well, and Seek Truth in the Sciences]. Leiden, 1637, pt. 1.

Current Citation

Descartes, René. Discourse on the Method, translated by Ian Maclean. Oxford University Press, 2008, pt. 1.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

John Donne

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Topic

Beauty fades Beauty Fading love Love

Author

John Donne

Source

Elegy II: The Anagram Elegies (John Donne)

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1631 1630s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Donne, John. "Elegy II: The Anagram." Elegies, edited by E. K. Chambers. Lawrence & Bullen, 1896, I. 27.

Current Citation

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

So sinks the day-star in the Ocean bed,
And yet anon repairs his drooping head,
And tricks his beams, and with new spangled Ore,
Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.

John Milton

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Topic

Sunset Sunrise The sun

Author

John Milton

Source

Lycidas Justa Edouardo King Naufrago ab Amicis morentibus, amoris

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1638 1630s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 1

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Milton, John. "Lycidas." Justa Edouardo King Naufrago ab Amicis morentibus, amoris [Just Edward King Shipwrecked by Dying Friends, of love. Cambridge: Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel, 1638.

Current Citation

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

No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face.

John Donne

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Topic

Beauty Grace Aging Middle age

Author

John Donne

Source

Elegy IX: The Autumnal Elegies (John Donne)

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1631 1630s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 0

Original Citation

Donne, John. "Elegy IX: The Autumnal." Elegies, edited by E. K. Chambers. Lawrence & Bullen, 1896, I. 1.

Current Citation

Donne, John. "Elegy: The Autumnal." Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2007, I. 1.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

George Herbert

Jacula Prudentum

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Topic

Fathers

Author

George Herbert

Source

Jacula Prudentum

Language

English

Time

1633 1630s 17th century

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Original Citation

Herbert, George. Jacula Prudentum, or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Microform. London: Humphrey Blunden, 1640.

Current Citation

Herbert, George. "Outlandish Proverbs." Herbert: The Complete English Works, edited by Ann Pasternak Slater. Everyman's Library, 1995, no. 682.

We must bear one another's burdens, we must not look only on our own things but also on the things of our brethren.

John Winthrop

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Topic

Social solidarity Helping others

Author

John Winthrop

Source

A Model of Christian Charity

Medium

Sermon

Language

English

Time

1630 1630s 17th century

Era

Colonial America

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Citation

Winthrop, John. "A Model of Christian Charity." 8 Apr. 1630, on board Arbella. Sermon.

Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.

George Herbert

Jacula Prudentum

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Topic

Prudence

Author

George Herbert

Source

Jacula Prudentum

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1633 1630s 17th century

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Original Citation

Herbert, George. Jacula Prudentum, or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Microform. London: Humphrey Blunden, 1640.

Current Citation

Herbert, George. "Outlandish Proverbs." Herbert: The Complete English Works, edited by Ann Pasternak Slater. Everyman's Library, 1995, no. 141.

Yet where an equal poise of hope and fear
Does arbitrate the event, my nature is
That I incline to hope rather than fear,
And gladly banish squint suspicion.

John Milton

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Topic

Optimism

Author

John Milton

Source

A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle

Medium

Play

Genre

Masque (play)

Language

English

Time

1634 1630s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Milton, John. "A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle." 29 Sept. 1634, Ludlow Castle, Ludlow, England, UK, line 410.

Current Citation

Milton, John. "A Masque...Presented at Ludlow Castle ['Comus']." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, line 410.

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is of slight worth, as all life is a dream, and dreams are dreams.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Life is a Dream

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Topic

Nature of life Life Dreams

Speaker

Sigismund

Author

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Source

Life is a Dream

Medium

Play

Statement Type

Question

Language

Spanish

Time

1635 1630s 17th century

Era

Spanish Golden Age

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Original Citation

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro. La vida es sueño [Life Is a Dream]. 1635, Madrid, Spain, act 2.

Current Citation

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro. Life is a Dream. Penguin Classics, 2006, act 2.

A mighty pain to love it is,
And 'tis a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains the greatest pain
It is to love, but love in vain.

Abraham Cowley

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Topic

Unrequited love Love

Author

Abraham Cowley

Source

Gold Anacreontiques

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1633 1630s 17th century

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Citation

Cowley, Abraham. "Anacreontiques." Poems written by A. Cowley. London: Humphrey Moseley, 1656, no. 7.

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame,
When once it is within thee.

George Herbert

The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations

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Topic

Drinking alcohol

Author

George Herbert

Source

The Church-Porch The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1633 1630s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Herbert, George. "The Church-Porch." The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. Cambridge: University of Cambridge, 1633, st. 5.

Current Citation

Herbert, George. "The Church-Porch." The Complete Poetry, edited by John Drury and Victoria Moul. Penguin Classics, 2015, st. 5.

Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.

William Bradford

Of Plymouth Plantation

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Topic

Small beginnings

Author

William Bradford

Source

Of Plymouth Plantation

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1630 1630s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Bradford, William. Journal entry. 2 Aug. 1630.

Current Citation

Bradford, William. Of Plymouth Plantation: 1620-1647. Random House, 1981, ch. 21.