Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Anne Bradstreet

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Exercise of power Illegitimate authority Lack of wisdom Wisdom

Author

Anne Bradstreet

Source

Meditations Divine and Moral

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Bradstreet, Anne. Meditations Divine and Moral. c. 1664, st. 12.

Current Citation

Bradstreet, Anne. "Meditations Divine and Moral." The Works of Anne Bradstreet. Harvard University Press, 1967, st. 12.

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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Gettysburg Address." At the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery. 19 Nov. 1863, Gettysburg, PA, USA.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Address at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1863." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom.

Hermann Hesse

Siddhartha

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Another quote from 1867

Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves suck back, and fling,
At their return, up the high strand,
Begin, and cease, and then again begin,
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
The eternal note of sadness in.
Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the Aegean.

Matthew Arnold

Dover Beach

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The beach Waves Melancholy

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Matthew Arnold
Source
Dover Beach
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1867 1860s 19th century
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Original Citation

Arnold, Matthew. "Dover Beach." New Poems. London: Macmillan and Co., 1867, I. 9.

Current Citation

Arnold, Matthew. "Dover Beach." Dover Beach and Other Poems. Dover Publications, 2012, I. 9.