Quotes from authors passed in 1680
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
David Crystal 
William Shakespeare 
Jack Klugman 
Ethel Merman 
Steve Swallow 
Giovanni Agnelli 
Robert M. Gates 
Rob Schneider Authors that died in 1680