Nae man can tether time or tide.

Robert Burns

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The only constant is change Passage of time Ocean and sea

Author

Robert Burns

Source

Tam O'Shanter

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1791 1790s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Poet Writer

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Original Citation

Burns, Robert. "Tam O'Shanter." Edinburgh Herald/Edinburgh Magazine, Mar. 1791.

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Burns, Robert. "Tam O'Shanter." Robert Burns: Selected Poems, edited by Carol Mcguirk. Penguin Classics, 1994.

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The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men,
Gang aft a-gley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief and pain,
For promis'd joy.

Robert Burns

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Making plans Dashed hopes Fate The unexpected

Author

Robert Burns
Source
To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With the Plough.
Medium
Poem
Language
Scots
Time
1785 1780s 18th century
Era
Age of Enlightenment
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Burns, Robert. "To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough, November, 1785." Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Kilmarnock: John Wilson, 1786.

Current Citation

Burns, Robert. "To a Mouse." Robert Burns: Selected Poems, edited by Carol Mcguirk. Penguin Classics, 1994.

Another quote from the 1790s

No man chooses evil, because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication of the Rights of Men

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Evil

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Mary Wollstonecraft
Source
A Vindication of the Rights of Men
Genre
Political literature
Language
English
Time
1790 1790s 18th century
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Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke; Occasioned by His Reflections on the Revolution in France. London: J. Johnson, 1790.

Current Citation

Wollstonecraft, Mary. "A Vindication of the Rights of Men." A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and A Vindication of the Rights of Men, edited by Janet Todd. Oxford University Press, 2009.

Another quote about Ocean and sea

All collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

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Ocean and sea

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Herman Melville
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Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
Medium
Novel
Statement Type
Closing lines
Language
English
Time
1851 1850s 19th century
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Original Citation

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 135.

Current Citation

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 135.

Another quote from Age of Enlightenment

Of all the animals, with which this globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have exercis'd more cruelty than towards man, in the numberless wants and necessities, with which she has loaded him, and in the slender means, which she affords to the relieving these necessities.

David Hume

A Treatise of Human Nature

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Acquisitiveness The human condition

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David Hume
Source
A Treatise of Human Nature
Medium
Treatise
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
English
Time
1739 1730s 18th century
Era
Age of Enlightenment
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Original Citation

Hume, David, [published anonymously]. A Treatise of Human Nature. London: John Noon, 1739, bk. 3, pt. 2, sect. 2.

Current Citation

Hume, David. "A Treatise of Human Nature." The Clarendon Edition of the Works of David Hume, edited by David Fate Norton and Mary J. Norton. Vol. 1, Oxford University Press, 2007, bk. 3, pt. 2, sect. 2.