Beauty's of a fading nature,
Has a season, and is gone!

Robert Burns

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Beauty fades The ephemeral Beauty

Author

Robert Burns

Source

Will Ye Go and Marry Katie?

Medium

Song

Language

English

Time

1764 1760s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Poet Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Burns, Robert. Will Ye Go and Marry Katie? c. 1764.

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Another quote by Robert Burns

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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Topic
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 1760s

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.

Voltaire

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Enemies

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Voltaire
Medium
Letter
Language
French
Time
1767 1760s 18th century
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Citation

Voltaire. Letter to Etienne Noel Damilaville. 16 May 1767.

Another quote about Beauty

Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.

Roger Scruton

Beauty: A Very Short Introduction

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Beauty

Author

Roger Scruton
Source
Beauty: A Very Short Introduction
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
English
Time
2011 2010s 21st century
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Citation

Scruton, Roger. Beauty: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2011, ch. 8.

Another quote from Age of Enlightenment

Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never is, but always to be blessed.

Alexander Pope

An Essay on Man

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Hope

Author

Alexander Pope
Source
An Essay on Man
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1733 1730s 18th century
Era
Age of Enlightenment
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Original Citation

Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Man." London: J. Wilford, 1733, ep. 1, l. 95.

Current Citation

Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Man." The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, ep. 1, l. 95.