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Moreover, in a system of two bodies mutually acting upon each other, since the differences between their centres and the common centre of gravity of both are reciprocally as the bodies, the relative motions of those bodies, whether of approaching to or of receding from that centre, will be equal junong themselves. Therefore since the changes which happen to motions are equal and directed to contrary parts.

Isaac Newton

Principia

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Topic

Cause and effect Laws of physics Physics Science

Author

Isaac Newton

Source

Principia

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

Latin

Time

1687 1680s 17th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Newton, Isaac. "Axiomata sive Leges Motus: [Axioms, or Laws of Motion]." Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica [The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy], vol. 1. London: Josephi Streater, 1687, law 3.

Current Citation

Newton, Isaac. "Axioms, or the Laws of Motion." The Principia, translated by Andrew Motte. Prometheus, 1995, law 3.

Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon.

Isaac Newton

Principia

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Topic

Newton's laws of motion Laws of physics

Author

Isaac Newton

Source

Principia

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

Latin

Time

1687 1680s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Newton, Isaac. "Axiomata sive Leges Motus: [Axioms, or Laws of Motion]." Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica [The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy], vol. 1. London: Josephi Streater, 1687, law 1.

Current Citation

Newton, Isaac. "Axioms, or the Laws of Motion." The Principia, translated by Andrew Motte. Prometheus, 1995, law 1.

The old pond-
A frog leaps in,
And a splash.

Matsuo Basho

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Topic

Nature scene

Author

Matsuo Basho

Medium

Haiku Poem

Language

Japanese

Time

1686 1680s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Basho, Matsuo. Haiku. c. 1686.

Current Citation

Basho, Matsuo. Basho: The Complete Haiku, translated by Jane Reichhold. Kodansha International, 2013.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

John Dryden

Absalom and Achitophel

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Topic

Genius and insanity Genius Insanity

Author

John Dryden

Source

Absalom and Achitophel

Medium

Poem

Genre

Satire

Language

English

Time

1681 1680s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Dryden, John. Absalom and Achitophel. London: Jacob Tonson, 1681, pt. 1, I. 163.

Current Citation

Dryden, John. "Absalom and Achitophel." John Dryden Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2002, pt. 1, I. 163.

For who can be secure of private right,
If sovereign sway may be dissolved by might?
Nor is the people's judgement always true:
The most may err as grossly as the few.

John Dryden

Absalom and Achitophel

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The masses Rule of law Democracy

Author

John Dryden

Source

Absalom and Achitophel

Medium

Poem

Genre

Satire

Language

English

Time

1681 1680s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Dryden, John. Absalom and Achitophel. London: Jacob Tonson, 1681, pt. 1, I. 779.

Current Citation

Dryden, John. "Absalom and Achitophel." John Dryden Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2002, pt. 1, I. 779.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him.

John Selden

Table Talk (Selden)

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Topic

Legal theory Law

Author

John Selden

Source

Table Talk (Selden)

Language

English

Time

1689 1680s 17th century

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Citation

Selden, John. "Law." The Table-Talk Of John Selden. London: J.M. Dent and Company, 1689.

The alteration of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.

Isaac Newton

Principia

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Topic

Newton's laws of motion Laws of physics

Author

Isaac Newton

Source

Principia

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

Latin

Time

1687 1680s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Newton, Isaac. "Axiomata sive Leges Motus: [Axioms, or Laws of Motion]." Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica [The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy], vol. 1. London: Josephi Streater, 1687, law 2.

Current Citation

Newton, Isaac. "Axioms, or the Laws of Motion." The Principia, translated by Andrew Motte. Prometheus, 1995, law 2.

There is a pleasure sure,
In being mad, which none but madmen know!

John Dryden

The Spanish Friar, or the Double Discovery

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Topic

Insanity

Speaker

Torrismond

Author

John Dryden

Source

The Spanish Friar, or the Double Discovery

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play) Comedy (play) Tragedy Comedy

Language

English

Time

1680 1680s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Dryden, John. The Spanish Friar, or the Double Discovery. c. 1680, Duke's Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 2.

Current Citation

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 2, sc. 2.

Foolish men who accuse
a woman mindlessly-
you cannot even see
you cause what you abuse.

Juana Inés de la Cruz

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Topic

Gender relations Men and women

Author

Juana Inés de la Cruz

Language

Spanish

Time

1689 1680s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Cruz, Juana Ines. Satira filosofica. c. 1689.

Current Citation

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

Dead men tell no tales.

John Dryden

The Spanish Friar, or the Double Discovery

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Topic

Secrets

Speaker

Dominick

Author

John Dryden

Source

The Spanish Friar, or the Double Discovery

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play) Comedy (play) Tragedy Comedy

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1680 1680s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Dryden, John. The Spanish Friar, or the Double Discovery. c. 1680, Duke's Theatre, London, England, UK, act 4, sc. 1.

Current Citation

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.

Not Heaven itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

John Dryden

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Topic

Changing the past What's done is done

Author

John Dryden

Source

Imitation of Horace

Medium

Poem

Language

Latin

Time

1685 1680s 17th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Dryden, John. Imitation of Horace. c. 1685, bk. 3, ode 29, stanza 8.

Current Citation

Dryden, John. "Translations from Horace: Book 3, Ode 29." Selected Poems, edited by Steven N. Zwicker and David Bywaters. Penguin Classics, 2002, stanza 8.

Nor is the people's judgment always true:
The most may err as grossly as the few.

John Dryden

Absalom and Achitophel

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Topic

The masses Critique of democracy Political theory

Author

John Dryden

Source

Absalom and Achitophel

Medium

Poem

Genre

Satire

Language

English

Time

1681 1680s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Dryden, John. Absalom and Achitophel. London: Jacob Tonson, 1681, pt. 1, I. 781.

Current Citation

Dryden, John. "Absalom and Achitophel." John Dryden Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2002, pt. 1, I. 781.

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

Aphra Behn

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Topic

Variety

Speaker

Willmore

Author

Aphra Behn

Source

The Rover

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1681 1680s 17th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Behn, Aphra. The Rover or The Banish'd Cavaliers. 24 Mar. 1677, Duke's Theatre, Dorset Gardens, London, England, UK, pt. 2, act 1, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Behn, Aphra. "The Rover." The Rover and Other Plays. Oxford University Press, 2008, pt. 2, act 1, sc. 1.

Any government is free to the people under it where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws.

William Penn

Frame of Government

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Topic

Political theory

Author

William Penn

Source

Frame of Government

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1682 1680s 17th century

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Citation

Penn, William. Frame of Government. 1682, preface.

For present joys are more to flesh and blood
Than a dull prospect of a distant good.

John Dryden

The Hind and the Panther: A Poem, in Three Parts

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Topic

Present value

Author

John Dryden

Source

The Hind and the Panther: A Poem, in Three Parts

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1687 1680s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Dryden, John. The Hind and the Panther: A Poem, in Three Parts. London: Jacob Tonson, 1687, pt. 3, I. 363.

Current Citation

Dryden, John. "The Hind and the Panther." Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2002, pt. 3, I. 363.

We love well only once, the first time. The loves which follow are less involuntary.

Jean de La Bruyere

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Topic

First love Being in love Love

Author

Jean de La Bruyere

Source

The Characters, or The Manners of the Age

Language

French

Time

1688 1680s 17th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

De La Bruyere, Jean. "Du Coeur [Of the Heart]." Les Caracteres ou Les Moeurs de Ce Siecle [The Characters or The Manners of the Age]. Paris: Chez Estienne Michallet, 1688.

Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.

Sir Thomas Browne

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Topic

Sleep

Author

Sir Thomas Browne

Source

On Dreams

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1682 1680s 17th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Browne, Thomas, Sir. "On Dreams." The Collected Works of Sir Thomas Browne. Norwich: Fletcher and Son, c. 1835.

Current Citation

Browne, Thomas, Sir. "On Dreams." Sir Thomas Browne: The Major Works, edited by C. A. Patrides. Penguin Classics, 1977.

What mighty ills have not been done by woman!
Who was 't betrayed the Capitol? -A woman!
Who lost Mark Antony the world? -A woman!
Who was the cause of a long ten years' war,
And laid at last old Troy in ashes? -Woman!
Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman!

Thomas Otway

The Orphan

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Topic

Misogyny Women

Speaker

Castalio

Author

Thomas Otway

Source

The Orphan

Genre

Tragedy (play) Tragedy

Language

English

Time

1680 1680s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Otway, Thomas. The Orphan. Performed by Elizabeth Barry and Thomas Betterton and Thomas Gillow and John Wiltshire and Henry Norris and William Smith and Thomas Percival and Margaret Osborne and Joseph Williams. 1680, Dorset Garden Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 1.

If all be true that I think,
There are five reasons we should drink;
Good wine-a friend-or being dry-
Or lest we should be by and by-
Or any other reason why.

Henry Aldrich

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Topic

Reasons to drink Alcohol

Author

Henry Aldrich

Source

Reasons for Drinking

Medium

Poem

Language

Latin

Time

1689 1680s 17th century

Authentication Score 0

Citation

Aldrich, Henry. Reasons for Drinking. c. 1689.

Errors are not in the art, but in the artificers.

Isaac Newton

Principia

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Topic

Mistakes Human fallibility Science

Author

Isaac Newton

Source

Principia

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

Latin

Time

1687 1680s 17th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Newton, Isaac. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica [The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy], vol. 1. London: Josephi Streater, 1687, preface.

Current Citation

Newton, Isaac. The Principia, translated by Andrew Motte. Prometheus, 1995, the author's preface.