O Life! thou art a galling load,
Along a rough, a weary road,
To wretches such as I!

Robert Burns

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Topic

Challenges of life Life The human condition

Author

Robert Burns

Source

Despondency

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1786 1780s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Occupation

Poet Writer

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Citation

Burns, Robert. "Despondency: An Ode." Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Kilmarnock: John Wilson, 1786, I. 4.

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But pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed,
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A moment white - then melts for ever.

Robert Burns

Tam o' Shanter

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Topic
Pleasure The ephemeral

Author

Robert Burns
Source
Tam o' Shanter
Medium
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Language
English
Time
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Original Citation

Burns, Robert. "Tam O'Shanter." Edinburgh Herald/Edinburgh Magazine, Mar. 1791.

Current Citation

Burns, Robert. "Tam O'Shanter." Robert Burns: Selected Poems, edited by Carol Mcguirk. Penguin Classics, 1994.

Another quote from the 1780s

Every project has been found to be no better than committing the lamb to the custody of the wolf, except that one which is called a balance of power.

John Adams

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Topic
Constitutional theory Political theory

Author

John Adams
Source
Letters of John Adams
Medium
Letter
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1789 1780s 18th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Adams, John. Letter to Roger Sherman. 17 July 1789.

Current Citation

Adams, John. "Correspondence with Roger Sherman and John Taylor." The Portable John Adams. Penguin Classics, 2004.

Another quote about The human condition

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

Ecclesiastes 9:11

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Randomness Timing The human condition
Source
Ecclesiastes The Bible
Medium
Scripture
Genre
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Statement Type
Proverbs, aphorisms and adages
Language
Hebrew
Time
931 BC 930s BC 10th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 3
Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Ecclesiastes 9:11).

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Woman's at best a contradiction still.

Alexander Pope

Letters of Alexander Pope

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Topic
Nature of women Women

Author

Alexander Pope
Source
Letters of Alexander Pope
Medium
Letter
Language
English
Time
1735 1730s 18th century
Era
Age of Enlightenment
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Pope, Alexander. Letter to M. Blount. 1735, I. 270.

Current Citation

Pope, Alexander. "An Epistle to a Lady." Alexander Pope: The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009.