1837

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Please, sir, I want some more.

Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist

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Soup Poverty Charity

Speaker

Oliver Twist

Author

Charles Dickens

Source

Oliver Twist

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

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Original Citation

Dickens, Charles. "Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress." Bentley's Miscellany. London: Richard Bentley, Feb. 1837, issue 1, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. Penguin, 2003, ch. 2.

Our country is the world — our countrymen are all mankind.

William Lloyd Garrison

Quoted in The Liberator

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Topic

Citizens of the world Globalism

Speaker

William Lloyd Garrison

Source

The Liberator

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

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Citation

Garrison, William Lloyd. Motto of The Liberator. 1831.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Topic

Making the most

Author

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source

The American Scholar

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "The American Scholar." Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard College. 31 Aug. 1837, First Parish in Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Current Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "The American Scholar (1837)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

The best government is that which governs least.

John L. O'Sullivan

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Topic

Limited government Government Political theory Politics

Author

John L. O'Sullivan

Source

United States Magazine and Democratic Review

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

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Citation

O'Sullivan, John L. United States Magazine and Democratic Review. Washington DC: Langtree and O'Sullivan, Oct. 1837, introduction.

Eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty.

Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson's Farewell Address

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Topic

Price of freedom

Speaker

Andrew Jackson

Source

Andrew Jackson's Farewell Address Presidential farewell addresses

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

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Citation

Jackson, Andrew. Farewell address. 4 Mar. 1837, Washington, DC USA.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The American Scholar

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Trusting oneself Believing in oneself

Speaker

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source

The American Scholar

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

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Original Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "The American Scholar." Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard College. 31 Aug. 1837, First Parish in Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Current Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "The American Scholar (1837)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist

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Topic

Hunting Human nature

Author

Charles Dickens

Source

Oliver Twist

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Dickens, Charles. "Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress." Bentley's Miscellany. London: Richard Bentley, July 1837, issue 5, ch. 10.

Current Citation

Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. Penguin, 2003, ch. 10.

Time is the great physician.

Benjamin Disraeli

Henrietta Temple

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Topic

Effects of time Time Healing

Speaker

Ferdinand

Author

Benjamin Disraeli

Source

Henrietta Temple

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

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Citation

Disraeli, Benjamin. Henrietta Temple. London: Henry Colburn, 1837, bk. 6, ch. 9.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously, and in concert, to fleece the people, and now, that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

Abraham Lincoln

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Topic

Too big to fail Bailouts Socialism for the rich Capitalism

Speaker

Abraham Lincoln

Source

Speech in the Illinois Legislature Concerning the State Bank

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech in the Illinois Legislature." 11 Jan. 1837, Vandalia, IL, USA.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech in the Illinois Legislature January 11, 1837." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

Edward Everett

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Topic

Value of education Education

Author

Edward Everett

Source

Salem Gazette

Medium

Essay Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

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Citation

Everett, Edward. "A Good Idea." Salem Gazette, 14 Mar. 1937.

Looking back to it as a sacred instrument carefully and not easily framed; remembering that it was throughout a work of concession and compromise; viewing it as limited to national objects; regarding it as leaving to the people and the States all power not explicitly parted with, I shall endeavor to preserve, protect, and defend it by anxiously referring to its provision for direction in every action.

Martin Van Buren

Inaugural Address of Martin van Buren

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Topic

US Constitution

Speaker

Martin Van Buren

Source

Inaugural Address of Martin van Buren Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

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Citation

Van Buren, Martin. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1837, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

We cannot tear out a single page of life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

George Sand

Mauprut

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Topic

Suicide

Author

George Sand

Source

Mauprut

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

French

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Sand, George. "Mauprat." Revue des deu Monds, Apr.-June 1837. Serial.

I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street; the news of the boat.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The American Scholar

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Topic

The little things Simple living Being present

Speaker

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source

The American Scholar

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "The American Scholar." Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard College. 31 Aug. 1837, First Parish in Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Current Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "The American Scholar (1837)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

A woman's love for us increases
The less we love her, sooth to say-
She stoops, she falls, her struggling ceases;
Caught fast, she cannot get away.

Alexander Pushkin

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Topic

Relationship challenges Love

Author

Alexander Pushkin

Source

Eugene Onegin

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

Russian

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Pushkin, Alexander. Евгеній Онѣгинъ, романъ въ стихахъ [Eugene Onegin, A Novel in Verse]. St. Petersburg: Alexandr Smirdin, 1833, ch. 4.

Current Citation

Pushkin, Alexander. Eugene Onegin, translated by James E. Falen. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 4.

With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. No difference of political opinion can alienate Cicero. No heresy can excite the horror of Bossuet.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Topic

Western intellectual tradition

Author

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Source

Lord Bacon Edinburgh Review

Medium

Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

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Citation

Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "Lord Bacon." Edinburgh Review, July 1837.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.

Benjamin Disraeli

Henrietta Temple

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Topic

Nature of life

Author

Benjamin Disraeli

Source

Henrietta Temple

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Disraeli, Benjamin. Henrietta Temple. London: Henry Colburn, 1837, bk. 2, ch. 4.

Character is higher than intellect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The American Scholar

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Character

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source

The American Scholar

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

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Original Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "The American Scholar." Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard College. 31 Aug. 1837, First Parish in Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Current Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "The American Scholar (1837)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

O poor mortals, how ye make this Earth bitter for each other.

Thomas Carlyle

The French Revolution: A History

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Topic

Man's cruelty to man

Author

Thomas Carlyle

Source

The French Revolution: A History

Genre

Historical literature

Statement Type

Lament

Language

English

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

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Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. The French Revolution: A History. London: James Fraser, 1837, pt. 1, bk. 5, ch. 5.

Prosperity brings with it an intoxication which inferior men are unable to resist.

Honoré de Balzac

La Comédie humaine

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Topic

Corrosive effects of wealth Downsides of wealth Wealth

Author

Honoré de Balzac

Source

César Birotteau La Comédie humaine

Medium

Novel

Language

French

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

De Balzac, Honoré. César Birotteau. Paris: Charles-Béchet, 1837.

Current Citation

De Balzac, Honoré. César Birotteau. Penguin Classics, 1994.

We have no disposition and we disclaim all right to meddle in disputes, whether internal or foreign, that may molest other countries, regarding them in their actual state as social communities, and preserving a strict neutrality in all their controversies.

Martin Van Buren

Inaugural Address of Martin van Buren

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Non-intervention Isolationism American foreign policy

Speaker

Martin Van Buren

Source

Inaugural Address of Martin van Buren Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Van Buren, Martin. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1837, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.