And sigh that one thing only has been lent
To youth and age in common—discontent.

Matthew Arnold

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Topic

Discontent Youth vs. old age The human condition

Author

Matthew Arnold

Source

Youth's Agitations

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1852 1850s 19th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Arnold, Matthew, [published as A]. "Sonnet." Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems. London: B. Fellowes, 1852, l. 13.

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I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one... But from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.

Theodore Parker

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Moral progress Social progress Progress
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Theodore Parker
Source
Ten Sermons of Religion
Medium
Sermon
Language
English
Time
1853 1850s 19th century
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Parker, Theodore. "Of Justice and the Conscience." Ten Sermons of Religion. Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company/New York: Charles S. Francis and Company, 1853.

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Of all the animals, with which this globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have exercis'd more cruelty than towards man, in the numberless wants and necessities, with which she has loaded him, and in the slender means, which she affords to the relieving these necessities.

David Hume

A Treatise of Human Nature

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Acquisitiveness The human condition

Author

David Hume
Source
A Treatise of Human Nature
Medium
Treatise
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
English
Time
1739 1730s 18th century
Era
Age of Enlightenment
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Original Citation

Hume, David, [published anonymously]. A Treatise of Human Nature. London: John Noon, 1739, bk. 3, pt. 2, sect. 2.

Current Citation

Hume, David. "A Treatise of Human Nature." The Clarendon Edition of the Works of David Hume, edited by David Fate Norton and Mary J. Norton. Vol. 1, Oxford University Press, 2007, bk. 3, pt. 2, sect. 2.