Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Topic

Nature of man

Author

Charles Caleb Colton

Source

Lacon

Language

English

Time

1820 1820s 19th century

Occupation

Clergyman Writer

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Citation

Colton, Charles Caleb. Lacon: Or Many Things In Few Words Addressed To Those Who Think. Vol. 1, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820.

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There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.

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Thomas Hood
Source
Ode to Melancholy
Language
English
Time
1827 1820s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Hood, Thomas. "Ode to Melancholy." The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur and Other Poems. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green/Philadelphia: E. Littell, 1827.

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Hood, Thomas. "Ode to Melancholy." Selected Poems of Thomas Hood. Harvard University Press, 1970.

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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.