Quotes from authors born in 1774
How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
Robert Southey
Captain Clarke who had gone out yesterday with eighteen men to bring in the meat we had killed the day before, and to continue the hunt, came in at twelve o'clock.
Meriwether Lewis
The weather became so intensely cold that we sent for all the hunters who had remained out with captain Clarke's party, and they returned in the evening several of them frostbitten.
Meriwether Lewis
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
Robert Southey
Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.
Robert Southey
Roy Hattersley 
Stefan Banach 
Anthony Head 
Rufus Wainwright 
Conrad Veidt 
Diane Kruger 
Munshi Premchand 
Elton John