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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Original Citation

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

Would it be too bold to imagine, that in the great length of time, since the earth began to exist, perhaps millions of ages before the comencement of the history of mankind, would it be too bold to imagine, that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament which the Great First Cause endured with animality... And thus possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity, and of delivering down those improvements by generation to its posterity, world without end!

Erasmus Darwin

Zoonomia

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Evolution

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Erasmus Darwin
Source
Zoonomia
Genre
Scientific literature
Language
English
Time
1794 1790s 18th century
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Darwin, Erasmus. Zoonomia; or the Laws of Organic Life. Vol. 1, London: Joseph Johnson, 1794, sec. 39.

Another quote about Ocean and sea

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

Ecclesiastes 1:7

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Ocean and sea
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Ecclesiastes The Bible
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Scripture
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Religious literature
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Paradox
Language
Hebrew
Time
931 BC 930s BC 10th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Ecclesiastes 1:7).

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Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

Edmund Burke

Reflections on the Revolution in France

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Revolution French Revolution

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Edmund Burke
Source
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Genre
Political literature
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1790 1790s 18th century
Era
Age of Enlightenment
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Original Citation

Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France. London: James Dodsley, 1790.

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Burke, Edmund. "Reflections on the Revolution in France." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.