1838

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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle

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Topic

Silence is golden Talking

Author

Thomas Carlyle

Source

Sir Walter Scott

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1838 1830s 19th century

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Original Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. "Sir Walter Scott." London and Westminster Review, 12 Nov. 1838.

Current Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. "Sir Walter Scott." The Works of Thomas Carlyle, edited by Henry Duff Traill. Vol. 29, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Error is a hardy plant: it flourisheth in every soil.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Of Truth in Things False

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Topic

Mistakes

Author

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Source

Of Truth in Things False

Language

English

Time

1838 1830s 19th century

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Citation

Tupper, Martin Farquhar. "Of Truth in Things False." Proverbial Philosophy. London: Joseph Rickerby, 1838.

Subdue your appetites my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

Charles Dickens

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

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Topic

Self-control Appetite Stoicism Human nature

Speaker

Wackford Squeers

Author

Charles Dickens

Source

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1838 1830s 19th century

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Original Citation

Dickens, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. London: Chapman and Hall, Apr. 1838, issue 2, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Dickens, Charles. Nicholas Nickleby, edited by Mark Ford. Penguin, 1999, ch. 5.

Let every man remember that to violate the law is to trample on the blood of his father and to tear the character of his own and his children's liberty.

Abraham Lincoln

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Topic

Breaking the law Rule of law Law

Speaker

Abraham Lincoln

Source

Address before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1838 1830s 19th century

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Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions." 27 Jan. 1838, Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, IL, USA.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Address to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, January 27, 1838." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.