1860s

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Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

Alexander Smith

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Death

Author

Alexander Smith

Language

English

Time

1863 1860s 19th century

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Citation

Smith, Alexander. "Of Death and the Fear of Dying." Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country. London: Strahan & Co., 1863.

You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

W.E. Gladstone

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Topic

Progress

Speaker

W.E. Gladstone

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1866 1860s 19th century

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Citation

Gladstone, William E. Address on the reform bill. House of Commons meeting. 27 Apr. 1866, The Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Topic

Friendship

Author

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Source

Journals of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1864 1860s 19th century

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Citation

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Quoted in Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife: A Biography, by Julian Hawthorne. Vol. I, Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893.

For the creation of a master-work of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.

Matthew Arnold

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Topic

Literature

Author

Matthew Arnold

Language

English

Time

1865 1860s 19th century

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Original Citation

Arnold, Matthew. "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time." Essays in Criticism: First Series. London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1865.

Current Citation

Arnold, Matthew. "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time." Culture and Anarchy and Other Selected Prose. Penguin Classics, 2015.

Though the President is Commander-in-chief, Congress is his commander; and, God willing, he shall obey. He and his minions shall learn that this is not a Government of kings and satraps, but a Government of the people, and that Congress is the people.

Thaddeus Stevens

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Topic

Separation of powers Constitutional theory

Speaker

Thaddeus Stevens

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

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Original Citation

Stevens, Thaddeus. Address in the House of Representatives. House of Representatives meeting. 3 Jan. 1867, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

Stevens, Thaddeus. "Reconstruction." The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens: April 1865-August 1868, edited by Beverly Wilson Palmer and Holly Byers Ochoa. Vol. 2, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war!

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Topic

Business

Author

Christian Nestell Bovee

Source

Institutions and Summaries of Thought

Language

English

Time

1862 1860s 19th century

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Citation

Bovee, Chrisitan Nestell. Intuitions and Summaries of Thought. Vol. 1, New York: Sheldon and Company/Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1862.

As for rioting, the old Roman way of dealing with that is always the right one; flog the rank and file, and fling the ringleaders from the Tarpeian rock.

Thomas Arnold

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Topic

Riots Law and order

Speaker

Thomas Arnold

Source

Culture and Anarchy

Medium

Essay

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1869 1860s 19th century

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Citation

Arnold, Matthew. Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1869. Originally published in Cornhill Magazine, 1868.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

John Ruskin

Sesame and Lilies

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Topic

Bad books Books

Author

John Ruskin

Source

Sesame and Lilies

Language

English

Time

1864 1860s 19th century

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Original Citation

Ruskin, John. "Of Kings Treasures." Sesame and Lilies. 1864, Manchester, UK.

Current Citation

Ruskin, John. Sesame and Lilies. The Works of John Ruskin, edited by Edward Tyas Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Vol. 18, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

John Ruskin

Unto This Last

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Topic

Schools and prisons Value of education

Author

John Ruskin

Source

Unto This Last

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1860 1860s 19th century

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Original Citation

Ruskin, John. "Unto this Last." Cornhill Magazine, Aug. - Dec. 1860.

Current Citation

Ruskin, John. "Unto This Last." The Works of John Ruskin, edited by Edward Tyas Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Vol. 17, Cambridge University Press, 2010, no. 2.