Beauty's of a fading nature,
Has a season, and is gone!

Robert Burns

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Beauty fades The ephemeral Beauty

Author

Robert Burns

Source

Will Ye Go and Marry Katie?

Medium

Song

Language

English

Time

1764 1760s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Occupation

Poet Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Burns, Robert. Will Ye Go and Marry Katie? c. 1764.

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Another quote by Robert Burns

But pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed,
Or like the snow falls in the river,
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
Poem
Language
English
Time
1791 1790s 18th century
Authentication Score 3
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 1760s

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

Voltaire

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Topic
Existence of God God

Author

Voltaire
Source
Letter to the Author of The Three Imposters
Medium
Letter
Language
French
Time
1768 1760s 18th century
Authentication Score 2
Citation

Voltaire. Épître à l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs [Letter to the author of The Three Impostors]. 10 Nov. 1770.

Another quote about Beauty

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

Molly Bawn

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Topic
Preferences Beauty Relativism
Speaker
Marcia

Author

Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
Source
Molly Bawn
Medium
Novel
Language
English
Time
1878 1870s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Citation

Hungerford, Margaret Wolfe. Molly Bawn. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz/Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1878.

Another quote from Age of Enlightenment

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

Voltaire

Candide

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Topic
Problem of evil

Author

Voltaire
Source
Candide
Medium
Novel
Genre
Satire
Statement Type
Question
Language
French
Time
1759 1750s 18th century
Era
Age of Enlightenment
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Voltaire. Candide, ou l'Optimisme [Candide: or, All for the Best]. Geneva: Gabriel Cramer, 1759, ch. 6.

Current Citation

Voltaire. Candide, edited by Nicholas Cronk. W. W. Norton & Company, 2016, ch. 6.