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Although we are mere sojourners on the surface of the planet, chained to a mere point in space, enduring but for a moment of time, the human mind is not only enabled to number worlds beyond the unassisted ken of mortal eye, but to trace the events of indefinite ages before the creation of our race, and is not even withheld from penetrating into the dark secrets of the ocean, or the interior of the solid globe.

Charles Lyell

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Principles of Geology

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Lyell, Charles, Sir. Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes Now in Operation. Vol. 1, London: John Murray, 1830.

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In the desert there is all-and yet nothing…God is there and man is not.

Honoré de Balzac

La Comédie humaine

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De Balzac, Honoré. "Une passion dans le desert [A Passion in the Desert]." Revue de Paris, 26 Dec. 1830.

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Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "Southey's Colloquies on Society." Edinburgh Review, Jan. 1830.

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It was a dark and stormy night.

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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Paul Clifford

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Bulwer-Lytton, Edward. Paul Clifford. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830.

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Bulwer-Lytton, Edward. Paul Clifford. Penguin Classics, 2010.

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What experience and history teach is this-that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.

G.W.F. Hegel

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Hegel, G. W. F. Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichte [Lectures on the Philosophy of World History]. c. 1830, University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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Hegel, G. W. F. Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, translated by H. B. Nisbet. Cambridge University Press, 1981.

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Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story—
The days of our Youth are the days of our glory;
And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty
Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.

Lord Byron

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Lord Byron. "Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa." Letters and Journals. London: J. Johnson, c. 1830.

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Lord Byron. "Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa." The Collected Poems of Lord Byron. Wordsworth, 1994.

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History is the essence of innumerable Biographies.

Thomas Carlyle

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Carlyle, Thomas. "On History." Fraser's Magazine, 1830.

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Carlyle, Thomas. "On History." The Works of Thomas Carlyle, edited by Henry Duff Traill. Vol. 27, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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It is a land of desire for all those who are weary of the historical arsenal of old Europe.

G.W.F. Hegel

On America.

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Hegel, G. W. F. Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichte [Lectures on the Philosophy of World History]. c. 1830, University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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Hegel, G. W. F. Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, translated by H. B. Nisbet. Cambridge University Press, 1981.

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Laws were made to be broken.

Christopher North

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North, Christopher. "Noctes Ambrosianae." Blackwood's Magazine, May 1830.

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Storm-clouds whirl and storm-clouds scurry;
From behind them pale moonlight
Flickers where the snowflakes hurry.
Dark the sky and dark the night.

Alexander Pushkin

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Pushkin, Alexander. Devils. c. 1830.

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Pushkin, Alexander. "Demons (1830)." Alexander Pushkin: Selected Poetry, translated by Antony Wood. Penguin Classics, 2020.

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We have heard it said that five per cent is the natural interest of money.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "Southey's Colloquies." Edinburgh Review, Jan. 1830.

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Politics in the middle of things that concern the imagination are like a pistol-shot in the middle of a concert.

Stendhal

The Red and the Black

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Stendhal. Le Rouge et le Noir: Chronique du XIXe siècle [The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of the 19th Century]. Vol. 2, Paris: A. Levasseur, c. 1830, ch. 22.

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Stendhal. The Red and the Black, translated by Catherine Slater. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2, ch. 22.

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