Kingdom of Great Britain

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"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one most adaptable to change."

Charles Darwin· b. 1758View quote →

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Charles Darwin

Science

1758–1778

"It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter. —"

"When it becomes necessary to do anything, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it."

"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense."

"ESSAY — A loose sally of the mind; an irregular indigested piece; not a regular and orderly composition."

"If anyone imagines that we are stating the case too strongly, let him try an experiment with the first bright boy he meets by asking,..."

"The Last Days and Valiant Death of Nathan Hale" in American Heritage magazine, Vol. 15, Issue 3"

"A feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation."

"A BOUNTY on the exportation of corn tends to lower its price to the foreign consumer, but it has no permanent effect on its price in the home market."

"You think me ambitious: ambition, alas! is composed of more rugged materials. If I were ambitious, I should not for so many years have been a prey to all the hell of conscientious scruples."

"Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long Absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: Absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer."

"Ships dim-discovered dropping from the clouds."

"A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge."

"The groan of the people spread over the hills; it was like the thunder of night, when the cloud bursts on Cona; and a thousand ghosts shriek at once on the hollow wind."

"You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track — the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on."

"To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain."

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Nicholas Conyngham Tindal

Law

1776–1846

"There is no reason for assuming, that the time of medical men and attornies is more valuable than that of others whose livelihood depends on their own exertions."

"samples of Sancho's music played by Paul Freeman"

"To be somebody or to do something. In life there is often a roll call. That’s when you will have to make a decision. To be or to do? Which way will you go?"

"The law merchant respects the religion of different people."

"Try how much of the word of God you can understand, and what is more, try how much you can practice. A sincere wish and purpose to do the will of God, will be your best way to know the mind of God."

"I look on all the world as my parish; thus far I mean, that, in whatever part of it I am, I judge it meet, right, and my bounden duty, to declare unto all that are willing to hear, the glad tidings of salvation."

"Fame, which is the opinion the World expresses of any Man's excellent Endowments, is the Idol to which the finest spirits have, in all Ages, burnt their Incense."

"I am too inexperienced and ignorant to conduct myself with propriety in this town, where every thing is new to me, and many things are unaccountable and perplexing."

"Hymns and sacred poems, 4th edition, by Wesley, John and Wesley, Charles, Bristol, 1743. At archive.org."

"Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing."

"I shall not die but live — in the mean time dear F. let us live as merrily but as innocently as we can. — It has ever been as good, if not better, than a bishoprick to me — and I desire no other."

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Thomas Robert Malthus

Politics

1766–1834

"A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one."

"To vanish in the chinks that Time has made."

"The Roman Nobility are not fond of strangers, and you will observe that extreme hospitality is only found where visitors are scarce."

"How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world! and how much the best!"

"He's as great a master of ill language as ever was bred at a Bear-Garden."

"If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it."

"Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too."

"I must have women—there is nothing unbends the mind like them."

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George III of the United Kingdom

Politics

1738–1820

"pon pain of the highest displeasure, to assent to no law by which the importation of slaves should be in any respect prohibited or obstructed."

"Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches."

"...the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up."

"If devotion to the fair sex be admitted as a criterion of civilization, the Rajpoot must rank high. His susceptibility is extreme, and fires at the slightest offense to female delicacy, which he never forgives."

"Having heard all of this you may choose to look the other way but you can never again say you did not know."

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"In the long history of humankind, those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed."

— Charles Darwin, b. 1758View →

"It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter. —"

— Charles Darwin, b. 1758View →

"If this book were to find general public acceptance, it would bring with it a brutalization of the human race such as it had never seen before."

— Charles Darwin, b. 1758View →

"If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week."

— Charles Darwin, b. 1758View →

"My object in this chapter is solely to shew that there is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties."

— Charles Darwin, b. 1758View →

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