m-ric/english_historical_quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.	Adam Smith	[ "nature" ]
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.	Adam Smith	[ "imagination" ]
Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.	Adam Smith	[ "science" ]
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.	Adam Smith	[ "humor" ]
No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.	Adam Smith	[ "money" ]
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.	Adam Smith	[ "business" ]
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?	Adam Smith	[ "happiness", "health" ]
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.	Adam Smith	[ "great", "science" ]
Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.	Adam Smith	[ "money" ]
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.	Adam Smith	[ "society" ]
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.	Adam Smith	[ "men" ]
Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.	Adam Smith	[ "money" ]
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.	Adam Smith	[ "happiness" ]
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.	Adam Smith	[ "peace" ]
All money is a matter of belief.	Adam Smith	[ "finance", "money" ]
The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.	Adam Smith	[ "fear" ]
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.	Adam Smith	[ "finance" ]
G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.	Adam Weishaupt	[ "knowledge" ]
And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.	Adam Weishaupt	[ "happiness", "nature" ]
It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.	Adam Weishaupt	[ "education", "nature" ]
When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.	Adam Weishaupt	[ "government", "nature" ]
Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.	Addison Mizner	[ "legal" ]
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.	Addison Mizner	[ "legal" ]
God gives us relatives thank God, we can choose our friends.	Addison Mizner	[ "relationship" ]
Dreams grow holy put in action.	Adelaide Anne Procter	[ "dreams" ]
My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.	Adelbert von Chamisso	[ "morning" ]
If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.	Adnan Pachachi	[ "trust" ]
I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May '43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in '42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn't have any priority in design or production.	Adolf Galland	[ "design" ]
This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about.	Adolf Galland	[ "technology" ]
The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.	Adolf Hitler	[ "strength" ]
Strength lies not in defence but in attack.	Adolf Hitler	[ "strength" ]
The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.	Adolf Hitler	[ "leadership" ]
Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.	Adolf Loos	[ "architecture" ]
Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.	Adolf Loos	[ "nature", "truth" ]
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.	Adolf Loos	[ "architecture" ]
The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.	Adolf Loos	[ "home" ]
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.	Adolf Loos	[ "architecture" ]
Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.	Adrian Cronauer	[ "government" ]
Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality he carried the American flag.	Adrian Cronauer	[ "equality" ]
Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.	Adrian Mitchell	[ "poetry" ]
Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.	Adrian Mitchell	[ "poetry" ]
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.	Adrian Mitchell	[ "poetry" ]
I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll.	Adrian Mitchell	[ "poetry" ]
The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.	Adrienne Rich	[ "war" ]
The moment of change is the only poem.	Adrienne Rich	[ "poetry" ]
Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.	Adrienne Rich	[ "women" ]
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.	Adrienne Rich	[ "women" ]
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.	Adrienne Rich	[ "poetry", "relationship" ]
The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.	Adrienne Rich	[ "society" ]
They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?	Adrienne Rich	[ "death" ]
God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.	Aeschylus	[ "god" ]
God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.	Aeschylus	[ "god" ]
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.	Aeschylus	[ "god", "wisdom" ]
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.	Aeschylus	[ "learning" ]
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.	Aeschylus	[ "god" ]
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.	Aeschylus	[ "wisdom" ]
To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.	Aeschylus	[ "best" ]
Call no man happy till he is dead.	Aeschylus	[ "death" ]
By Time and Age full many things are taught.	Aeschylus	[ "age" ]
Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.	Aeschylus	[ "death" ]
God always strives together with those who strive.	Aeschylus	[ "god" ]
But time growing old teaches all things.	Aeschylus	[ "time" ]
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.	Aeschylus	[ "great", "sympathy" ]
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.	Aeschylus	[ "alone", "wisdom" ]
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.	Aeschylus	[ "success" ]
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.	Aeschylus	[ "trust" ]
By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.	Aeschylus	[ "environmental" ]
When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?	Aeschylus	[ "strength" ]
Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.	Aeschylus	[ "wisdom" ]
Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.	Aeschylus	[ "men" ]
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.	Aeschylus	[ "nature" ]
Excessive fear is always powerless.	Aeschylus	[ "fear", "power" ]
What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?	Aeschylus	[ "newyears" ]
I know how men in exile feed on dreams.	Aeschylus	[ "dreams" ]
Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.	Aeschylus	[ "god" ]
It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.	Aeschylus	[ "wisdom" ]
For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.	Aeschylus	[ "happiness" ]
For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.	Aeschylus	[ "trust" ]
It is always in season for old men to learn.	Aeschylus	[ "education" ]
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin.	Aeschylus	[ "happiness" ]
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.	Aeschylus	[ "happiness" ]
The words of truth are simple.	Aeschylus	[ "truth" ]
My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.	Aeschylus	[ "experience" ]
For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.	Aeschylus	[ "death" ]
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.	Aeschylus	[ "best" ]
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.	Aeschylus	[ "great" ]
Whoever is new to power is always harsh.	Aeschylus	[ "power" ]
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.	Aeschylus	[ "fear" ]
Time brings all things to pass.	Aeschylus	[ "time" ]
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.	Aeschylus	[ "education", "learning" ]
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.	Aeschylus	[ "men" ]
Death is easier than a wretched life and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.	Aeschylus	[ "death" ]
Death is softer by far than tyranny.	Aeschylus	[ "death" ]
When a match has equal partners then I fear not.	Aeschylus	[ "fear" ]
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.	Aesop	[ "truth" ]
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.	Aesop	[ "great", "politics" ]
Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.	Aesop	[ "truth" ]
Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.	Aesop	[ "truth" ]
Example is the best precept.	Aesop	[ "best" ]
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.	Aesop	[ "food", "peace" ]

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

Adam Smith

[ "nature" ]

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

Adam Smith

[ "imagination" ]

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

Adam Smith

[ "science" ]

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.

Adam Smith

[ "humor" ]

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

Adam Smith

[ "money" ]

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Adam Smith

[ "business" ]

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Adam Smith

[ "happiness", "health" ]

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Adam Smith

[ "great", "science" ]

Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

Adam Smith

[ "money" ]

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Adam Smith

[ "society" ]

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

Adam Smith

[ "men" ]

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

Adam Smith

[ "money" ]

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

Adam Smith

[ "happiness" ]

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

Adam Smith

[ "peace" ]

All money is a matter of belief.

Adam Smith

[ "finance", "money" ]

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.

Adam Smith

[ "fear" ]

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Adam Smith

[ "finance" ]

G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.

Adam Weishaupt

[ "knowledge" ]

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

Adam Weishaupt

[ "happiness", "nature" ]

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.

Adam Weishaupt

[ "education", "nature" ]

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

Adam Weishaupt

[ "government", "nature" ]

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Addison Mizner

[ "legal" ]

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Addison Mizner

[ "legal" ]

God gives us relatives thank God, we can choose our friends.

Addison Mizner

[ "relationship" ]

Dreams grow holy put in action.

Adelaide Anne Procter

[ "dreams" ]

My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.

Adelbert von Chamisso

[ "morning" ]

If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.

Adnan Pachachi

[ "trust" ]

I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May '43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in '42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn't have any priority in design or production.

Adolf Galland

[ "design" ]

This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about.

Adolf Galland

[ "technology" ]

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

Adolf Hitler

[ "strength" ]

Strength lies not in defence but in attack.

Adolf Hitler

[ "strength" ]

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

Adolf Hitler

[ "leadership" ]

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.

Adolf Loos

[ "architecture" ]

Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.

Adolf Loos

[ "nature", "truth" ]

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

Adolf Loos

[ "architecture" ]

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

Adolf Loos

[ "home" ]

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

Adolf Loos

[ "architecture" ]

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Adrian Cronauer

[ "government" ]

Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality he carried the American flag.

Adrian Cronauer

[ "equality" ]

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

Adrian Mitchell

[ "poetry" ]

Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

Adrian Mitchell

[ "poetry" ]

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

Adrian Mitchell

[ "poetry" ]

I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll.

Adrian Mitchell

[ "poetry" ]

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.

Adrienne Rich

[ "war" ]

The moment of change is the only poem.

Adrienne Rich

[ "poetry" ]

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.

Adrienne Rich

[ "women" ]

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Adrienne Rich

[ "women" ]

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

Adrienne Rich

[ "poetry", "relationship" ]

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

Adrienne Rich

[ "society" ]

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?

Adrienne Rich

[ "death" ]

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

Aeschylus

[ "god" ]

God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.

Aeschylus

[ "god" ]

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

Aeschylus

[ "god", "wisdom" ]

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

Aeschylus

[ "learning" ]

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

Aeschylus

[ "god" ]

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

[ "wisdom" ]

To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

Aeschylus

[ "best" ]

Call no man happy till he is dead.

Aeschylus

[ "death" ]

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

Aeschylus

[ "age" ]

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

Aeschylus

[ "death" ]

God always strives together with those who strive.

Aeschylus

[ "god" ]

But time growing old teaches all things.

Aeschylus

[ "time" ]

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Aeschylus

[ "great", "sympathy" ]

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Aeschylus

[ "alone", "wisdom" ]

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

Aeschylus

[ "success" ]

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

Aeschylus

[ "trust" ]

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

Aeschylus

[ "environmental" ]

When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?

Aeschylus

[ "strength" ]

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

Aeschylus

[ "wisdom" ]

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

Aeschylus

[ "men" ]

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

Aeschylus

[ "nature" ]

Excessive fear is always powerless.

Aeschylus

[ "fear", "power" ]

What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

Aeschylus

[ "newyears" ]

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

Aeschylus

[ "dreams" ]

Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.

Aeschylus

[ "god" ]

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

Aeschylus

[ "wisdom" ]

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

Aeschylus

[ "happiness" ]

For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.

Aeschylus

[ "trust" ]

It is always in season for old men to learn.

Aeschylus

[ "education" ]

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin.

Aeschylus

[ "happiness" ]

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Aeschylus

[ "happiness" ]

The words of truth are simple.

Aeschylus

[ "truth" ]

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

Aeschylus

[ "experience" ]

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

Aeschylus

[ "death" ]

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

Aeschylus

[ "best" ]

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

Aeschylus

[ "great" ]

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

Aeschylus

[ "power" ]

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

Aeschylus

[ "fear" ]

Time brings all things to pass.

Aeschylus

[ "time" ]

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Aeschylus

[ "education", "learning" ]

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Aeschylus

[ "men" ]

Death is easier than a wretched life and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

Aeschylus

[ "death" ]

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

Aeschylus

[ "death" ]

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

[ "fear" ]

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Aesop

[ "truth" ]

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Aesop

[ "great", "politics" ]

Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Aesop

[ "truth" ]

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

Aesop

[ "truth" ]

Example is the best precept.

Aesop

[ "best" ]

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Aesop

[ "food", "peace" ]