“None think the great unhappy but the great.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) English poet
Satire I, l. 238.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)
“As if Misfortune made the throne her seat,
And none could be unhappy but the great.”
Prologue. Compare: "None think the great unhappy, but the great", Edward Young, The Love of Fame, satire 1, line 238.
The Fair Penitent (1703)
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“None of the great discoveries was made by a "specialist" or a "researcher."”
Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962) American university teacher (1879-1962)
Fischerisms (1944)
Nicolaus Copernicus book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
Alternate translation: Then in the middle of all stands the sun. For who, in our most beautiful temple, could set this light in another or better place, than that from which it can at once illuminate the whole? Not to speak of the fact that not unfittingly do some call it the light of the world, others the soul, still others the governor. Tremigistus calls it the visible God; Sophocles' Electra, the All-seer. And in fact does the sun, seated on his royal throne, guide his family of planets as they circle round him.
Book 1, Ch. 10, Alternate translation as quoted in Edwin Arthur Burtt in The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science (1925)
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543)
Context: At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun. For, in this most beautiful temple, who would place this lamp in another or better position than that from which it can light up the whole thing at the same time? For, the sun is not inappropriately called by some people the lantern of the universe, its mind by others, and its ruler by still others. The Thrice Greatest labels it a visible god, and Sophocles' Electra, the all-seeing. Thus indeed, as though seated on a royal throne, the sun governs the family of planets revolving around it.
Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV (1884–1940) King of Mysore
Lord Irwin on the occasion of the State Banquet held on the 29th July on his taking over as Viceroy. Modern_Mysore, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Open University, 26 November 2013, archive.org, 345-46 http://archive.org/stream/modernmysore035292mbp/modernmysore035292mbp_djvu.txt, <br class="br">As ruler of the state
“And amongst us one,
Who most has suffer’d, takes dejectedly
His seat upon the intellectual throne.”
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools
St. 19
The Scholar Gypsy (1853)
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
Graves of Two English Soldiers on Concord Battleground, st. 3 (1849)
