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Abraham Lincoln
“government of the people by the people for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Abraham Lincoln · Gettysburg Address (Nicolay draft) (1863)
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“The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here; while it can never forget what they did here.”
Abraham Lincoln · Gettysburg Address (Nicolay draft) (1863)
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“I saw a woman do her ironing with no other warming power save that of the sunshine, and as I came away she was hanging her kettle out of the window to get her tea ready.”
Abraham Lincoln · A Legacy of Fun (1865)
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“Massachusetts, only six months old, sitting in its mother’s lap, viewing its own cradle, to see if it could not invent a better, or, at least, suggest some improvement.”
Abraham Lincoln · A Legacy of Fun (1865)
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“When Captain Frye, the son of Canon Frye, was, for his distinguished bravery at the Battle of Bull’s Run, jokingly alluded to by Sumner as a son of a gun.”
Abraham Lincoln · A Legacy of Fun (1865)
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“To reason from the past to the future, we shall have good ground to apprehend, that the sword would sometimes be appealed to as the arbiter of their differences.”
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay · The Federalist Papers (1788)
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“And yet they were the same,” murmured Monte Cristo, “only now it is broad daylight instead of night; it is the sun which brightens the place, and makes it appear so cheerful.”
Alexandre Dumas · The Count of Monte Cristo (1846)
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“Dantès reviewed his past life with composure, and, looking forward with terror to his future existence, chose that middle line that seemed to afford him a refuge.”
Alexandre Dumas · The Count of Monte Cristo (1846)
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“I can well believe that so learned a person as yourself would prefer absolute solitude to being tormented with the company of one as ignorant and uninformed as myself.”
Alexandre Dumas · The Count of Monte Cristo (1846)
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“I have thought it no sin to bore through a wall, or destroy a staircase; but I cannot so easily persuade myself to pierce a heart or take away a life.”
Alexandre Dumas · The Count of Monte Cristo (1846)
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“But their Government gave the new republic time to acquire a certain stability, and afterwards to support the rapid growth of the very doctrines which they had combated.”
Alexis de Tocqueville · Democracy in America — Volume 1 (1835 · English translation 1835)
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“In antiquity, precautions were taken to prevent the slave from breaking his chains; at the present day measures are adopted to deprive him even of the desire of freedom.”
Alexis de Tocqueville · Democracy in America — Volume 1 (1835 · English translation 1835)
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“In this manner popularity may be conciliated with hostility to the rights of the people, and the secret slave of tyranny may be the professed admirer of freedom.”
Alexis de Tocqueville · Democracy in America — Volume 1 (1835 · English translation 1835)
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“Puritans went forth to seek some rude and unfrequented part of the world, where they could live according to their own opinions, and worship God in freedom.”
Alexis de Tocqueville · Democracy in America — Volume 1 (1835 · English translation 1835)
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“The revolution of the United States was the result of a mature and dignified taste for freedom, and not of a vague or ill-defined craving for independence.”
Alexis de Tocqueville · Democracy in America — Volume 1 (1835 · English translation 1835)
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“It is true that whoever receives an opinion on the word of another, does so far enslave his mind; but it is a salutary servitude which allows him to make a good use of freedom.”
Alexis de Tocqueville · Democracy in America — Volume 2 (1840 · English translation 1840)
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“The future will prove whether these passions, at once so rare and so productive, come into being and into growth as easily in the midst of democratic as in aristocratic communities.”
Alexis de Tocqueville · Democracy in America — Volume 2 (1840 · English translation 1840)
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“This ardent love it is--this proud, disinterested love of what is true--which raises men to the abstract sources of truth, to draw their mother-knowledge thence.”
Alexis de Tocqueville · Democracy in America — Volume 2 (1840 · English translation 1840)
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“I thankfully enjoyed my present good fortune, I could not fail to wish and hope for something better in future; but, of course, I kept such dreams entirely to myself.”
Anne Brontë · The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
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“I was obliged to keep my criticisms to myself, for my aunt would not hear them—and they—the ladies especially—appeared so provokingly mindless, and heartless, and artificial.”
Anne Brontë · The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
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“Those who bridle their mind which travels far, moves about alone, is without a body, and hides in the chamber (of the heart), will be free from the bonds of Mara (the tempter).”
Anonymous · The Dhammapada (Ancient India · English translation 1881)
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“The scent of flowers does not travel against the wind, nor (that of) sandal-wood, or of Tagara and Mallika flowers; but the odour of good people travels even against the wind; a good man pervades every place.”
Anonymous · The Dhammapada (Ancient India · English translation 1881)
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Translated by F. Max Müller; The Dhammapada, Chapter 4, verse 54.
“All four are good, and seek me; but mine own, The true of heart, the faithful--stayed on me, Taking me as their utmost blessedness, They are not "mine,"but I--even I myself!”
Anonymous · The Song Celestial; or, Bhagavad-Gita (Ancient India · English translation 1885)
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“But, for whom That darkness of the soul is chased by light, Splendid and clear shines manifest the Truth As if a Sun of Wisdom sprang to shed Its beams of dawn.”
Anonymous · The Song Celestial; or, Bhagavad-Gita (Ancient India · English translation 1885)
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“Who have made the gods and Rishis long ago; He only knoweth-only he is free of sin, and wise, Who seeth Me, Lord of the Worlds, with faith-enlightened eyes, Unborn, undying, unbegun.”
Anonymous · The Song Celestial; or, Bhagavad-Gita (Ancient India · English translation 1885)
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“With watchful ward; so, step by step, it comes To gift of peace assured and heart assuaged, When the mind dwells self-wrapped, and the soul broods Cumberless.”
Anonymous · The Song Celestial; or, Bhagavad-Gita (Ancient India · English translation 1885)
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“By now it was quite light in the rooms, and a faint glimmer of sunlight, piercing through the morning mist, quivered on the floor and on the wall of the drawing-room.”
Anton Chekhov · The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories (1899 · English translation 1917)
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“It moved with fearful rapidity across the bay, towards the hotel, growing smaller and darker as it came, and Kovrin only just had time to get out of the way to let it pass.”
Anton Chekhov · The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories (1899 · English translation 1917)
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“Now he saw her face near, her shining eyes, and in the darkness she looked younger than in the room, and even her old childish expression seemed to have come back to her.”
Anton Chekhov · The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories (1899 · English translation 1917)
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“Please come in, doctor," said women's voices in the passage and the entry, and at the same time he heard sighs and whisperings.”
Anton Chekhov · The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories (1899 · English translation 1917)
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“She pressed his hand and began rapidly going downstairs, looking round at him, and from her eyes he could see that she really was unhappy.”
Anton Chekhov · The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories (1899 · English translation 1917)
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“Sunday morning; and he thought how pleasant it was on such a morning in the spring to drive with three horses in a good carriage, and to bask in the sunshine.”
Anton Chekhov · The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories (1899 · English translation 1917)
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“The bay, like a living thing, looked at him with its multitude of light blue, dark blue, turquoise and fiery eyes, and seemed beckoning to him.”
Anton Chekhov · The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories (1899 · English translation 1917)
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“Esteemed as such, but everywhere, but the barbarians are respected on this account at home only; as if nobility and freedom were of two sorts, the one universal, the other not so.”
Aristotle · Politics (Classical Greece · English translation 1885)
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“It is probably a matter of still more difficulty to determine their rights as citizens who are admitted to their freedom after any revolution in the state.”
Aristotle · Politics (Classical Greece · English translation 1885)
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“Hence it is evident that a city is a natural production, and that man is naturally a political animal, and that whosoever is naturally and not accidentally unfit for society, must be either inferior or superior to man: thus the man in Homer, who is reviled for being "without society, without law, without family."”
Aristotle · Politics (Classical Greece · English translation 1885)
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“Revolutions also sometimes take place in a democracy, though seldomer; for where the rich grow numerous or properties increase, they become oligarchies or dynasties.”
Aristotle · Politics (Classical Greece · English translation 1885)
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“Since then some men are slaves by nature, and others are freemen, it is clear that where slavery is advantageous to any one, then it is just to make him a slave.”
Aristotle · Politics (Classical Greece · English translation 1885)
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“The master is not so called from his knowing how to manage his slave, but because he is so; for the same reason a slave and a freeman have their respective appellations.”
Aristotle · Politics (Classical Greece · English translation 1885)
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“And, again, a man is not a coward for fearing insult to his wife or children, or envy, or any such thing; nor is he a Brave man for being bold when going to be scourged.”
Aristotle · The Nicomachean Ethics (Classical Greece · English translation 1893)
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“For Just implies mutually acknowledged law, and law the possibility of injustice, for adjudication is the act of distinguishing between the Just and the Unjust.”
Aristotle · The Nicomachean Ethics (Classical Greece · English translation 1893)
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“Great-minded who values himself highly and at the same time justly, because he that does so without grounds is foolish, and no virtuous character is foolish or senseless.”
Aristotle · The Nicomachean Ethics (Classical Greece · English translation 1893)
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“Make, conjoined with true Reason;” its absence, on the contrary, is the same state conjoined with false Reason, and both are employed upon Contingent matter.”
Aristotle · The Nicomachean Ethics (Classical Greece · English translation 1893)
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“Chamfort makes the very true remark: They are made to trade with our own weaknesses and our follies, but not with our reason.”
Arthur Schopenhauer · Studies in Pessimism (1851 · English translation 1891)
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“In this respect those whose youth has allowed them no time or opportunity for reading novels--those who work with their hands and the like--are in a position of decided advantage.”
Arthur Schopenhauer · Studies in Pessimism (1851 · English translation 1891)
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“It is just this characteristic way in which the brute gives itself up entirely to the present moment that contributes so much to the delight we take in our domestic pets.”
Arthur Schopenhauer · Studies in Pessimism (1851 · English translation 1891)
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“Nirvana, that blessed state obtained by expiation, which had endured so long a time--the change taking place by a kind of fatality.”
Arthur Schopenhauer · Studies in Pessimism (1851 · English translation 1891)
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“The chief source of all this passion is that thought for what is absent and future, which, with man, exercises such a powerful influence upon all he does.”
Arthur Schopenhauer · Studies in Pessimism (1851 · English translation 1891)
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“The delight which a man has in hoping for and looking forward to some special satisfaction is a part of the real pleasure attaching to it enjoyed in advance.”
Arthur Schopenhauer · Studies in Pessimism (1851 · English translation 1891)
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“This feeling grows, now and then, into a more or less passionate love, which is the source of little pleasure and much suffering.”
Arthur Schopenhauer · Studies in Pessimism (1851 · English translation 1891)
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“I was a pretty fair pitcher in those days if I do say so myself, and at the end of a half hour Dunn called a halt and went into the office with Brother Gilbert.”
Babe Ruth · Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball (1928)
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“Then there were Brother Albin and Brother Paul—men whom I still see frequently and who never fail to send me letters of congratulation every time I do something worth while.”
Babe Ruth · Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball (1928)
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“It is thus not to be wondered at, that among philosophers, who seek to explain things in nature merely by the images formed of them, so many controversies should have arisen.”
Benedictus de Spinoza · Ethics (1677 · English translation 1883)
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“Thus we see, that the mind can undergo many changes, and can pass sometimes to a state of greater perfection, sometimes to a state of lesser perfection.”
Benedictus de Spinoza · Ethics (1677 · English translation 1883)
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“Wherefore the image of a thing, regarded in itself alone, is identical, whether it be referred to time past, time future, or time present; that is (II.”
Benedictus de Spinoza · Ethics (1677 · English translation 1883)
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“He does not wish any one to tell him the truth; he avoids telling it to others, and all these dispositions, so removed from justice and reason, have a natural root in his heart.”
Blaise Pascal · Pascal's Pensées (1670 · English translation 1904)
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“The will is one of the chief factors in belief, not that it creates belief, but because things are true or false according to the aspect in which we look at them.”
Blaise Pascal · Pascal's Pensées (1670 · English translation 1904)
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“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
Booker T. Washington · Up from Slavery (1901)
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“From the time that Garrison, Lovejoy, and others began to agitate for freedom, the slaves throughout the South kept in close touch with the progress of the movement.”
Booker T. Washington · Up from Slavery (1901)
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“Ellis; namely, that after the murderous battles of former times, the survivors on the conquered side retired into the mountains, where a handful of men could resist a multitude.”
Charles Darwin · The Voyage of the Beagle (1839)
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“Of course, after so very short a visit, one's opinion is worth scarcely anything; but it is as difficult not to form some opinion, as it is to form a correct judgment.”
Charles Darwin · The Voyage of the Beagle (1839)
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“These, glittering in the sunshine, might be compared to diverging rays of light; they were not, however, straight, but in undulations like films of silk blown by the wind.”
Charles Darwin · The Voyage of the Beagle (1839)
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“Correlation of growth has no doubt played a most important part, and a useful modification of one part will often have entailed on other parts diversified changes of no direct use.”
Charles Darwin · On the Origin of Species (1859)
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“Hence, in determining whether a form should be ranked as a species or a variety, the opinion of naturalists having sound judgment and wide experience seems the only guide to follow.”
Charles Darwin · On the Origin of Species (1859)
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“Savages now sometimes cross their dogs with wild canine animals, to improve the breed, and they formerly did so, as is attested by passages in Pliny.”
Charles Darwin · On the Origin of Species (1859)
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“Selection, as we shall hereafter see, is a power incessantly ready for action, and is as immeasurably superior to man’s feeble efforts, as the works of Nature are to those of Art.”
Charles Darwin · On the Origin of Species (1859)
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“As Marcus Aurelius long ago said, “Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.”
Charles Darwin · The Descent of Man (1871)
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“At the proper season these birds seem all day long to be impressed with the desire to migrate; their habits change; they become restless, are noisy and congregate in flocks.”
Charles Darwin · The Descent of Man (1871)
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“In both classes the change of colour is sometimes seasonal, and the tints of the naked parts sometimes become more vivid during the act of courtship.”
Charles Darwin · The Descent of Man (1871)
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“There was an eager, greedy, restless motion in the eye, which showed the passion that had taken root, and where the shadow of the growing tree would fall.”
Charles Dickens · A Christmas Carol (1843)
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“When he roused himself from his thoughtful quest, he fancied from the turn of the hand, and its situation in reference to himself, that the Unseen Eyes were looking at him keenly.”
Charles Dickens · A Christmas Carol (1843)
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“I could ever have consoled myself under my small troubles (which were great troubles to me), by impersonating my favourite characters in them--as I did--and by putting Mr.”
Charles Dickens · David Copperfield (1850)
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“Why you see,’ said the waiter, still looking at the light through the tumbler, with one of his eyes shut up, ‘our people don’t like things being ordered and left.”
Charles Dickens · David Copperfield (1850)
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“I don’t care about fortune: she is a charming creature, and I have made up my mind to please myself: on the whole, I think I can afford to please myself.”
Charles Dickens · A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
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“Monsieur the Marquis by that time; and the shadow was exchanged for the light of a flambeau, as his carriage stopped, and the great door of his chateau was opened to him.”
Charles Dickens · A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
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“I believe its character do stand it; but I wouldn’t keep a pig in it myself,—not in the case that I wished him to fatten wholesome and to eat with a meller flavour on him.”
Charles Dickens · Great Expectations (1861)
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“What I dreaded was, that in some unlucky hour I, being at my grimiest and commonest, should lift up my eyes and see Estella looking in at one of the wooden windows of the forge.”
Charles Dickens · Great Expectations (1861)
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“Edwin, it came into my mind just now, when I was looking at the fire, that I could, in my discretion, acquit myself of that trust at no better time than the present.”
Charles Dickens · The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)
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“Sapsea expressed his opinion that the case had a dark look; in short (and here his eyes rested full on Neville’s countenance), an Un-English complexion.”
Charles Dickens · The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)
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“So, the weather being bright and hard, I am going on a walking expedition, and intend taking myself out of everybody’s way (my own included, I hope) to-morrow morning.”
Charles Dickens · The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)
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“The Wells”), notably the season wherein a certain finished gentleman (compassionately called by Miss Twinkleton, in this stage of her existence, “Foolish Mr.”
Charles Dickens · The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)
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“The good lady had talked for half an hour, and had brought a ray of sunshine into the teacher's monotonous life, heretofore lighted only by the uncertain lamp of high resolve.”
Charles W. Chesnutt · The House Behind the Cedars (1900)
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“It was what I had left Los Angeles for, and that night Charlie Chaplin seemed very far away, and I felt or wanted to feel myself just a simple soul among other souls.”
Charlie Chaplin · My Wonderful Visit (1922)
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“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.”
Charlotte Brontë · Jane Eyre (1847)
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“I fall o’er the broken bridge passing, Or stray in the marshes, by false lights beguiled, Still will my Father, with promise and blessing, Take to His bosom the poor orphan child.”
Charlotte Brontë · Jane Eyre (1847)
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“He who hath plenty shall decay: Our fathers went; we pass away; Our children follow on our track: So generations fail, and so They are renewed, and come and go.”
Christina Rossetti · Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862)
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“I deck myself with skills and jewelry, I plume myself like any mated dove: They praise my rustling show, and never see My heart is breaking for a little love.”
Christina Rossetti · Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862)
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“Like summer lightning fair, Like rising of the haloed moon 170 Lightened her glimmering hair, While her face lightened like the sun Whose dawn is rosy white.”
Christina Rossetti · Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862)
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“Spring shall bloom where now the ice is, Roses make the bramble sightly, And the quickening sun shine brightly, And the latter wind blow lightly, And my garden teem with spices.”
Christina Rossetti · Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862)
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“You'll see with clearer eyes; Perhaps in this world even When you are like to die And face to face with Heaven You'll drop for once the lie: But you must drop the mask, not I.”
Christina Rossetti · Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862)
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“God in Christ, reconciling him to Himself, and would guide me so to speak to him from the Word of God that his conscience might be convinced, his eyes opened, and his soul saved.”
Daniel Defoe · Robinson Crusoe (1719)
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“Having perceived my bread had been low a great while, now I took a survey of it, and reduced myself to one biscuit cake a day, which made my heart very heavy.”
Daniel Defoe · Robinson Crusoe (1719)
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“I began now to own and to believe ordered everything for the best; I say I quieted my mind with this, and left off afflicting myself with fruitless wishes of being there.”
Daniel Defoe · Robinson Crusoe (1719)
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“I had greatly scrupled the lawfulness of it to myself; and my heart trembled at the thoughts of shedding so much blood, though it was for my deliverance.”
Daniel Defoe · Robinson Crusoe (1719)
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“So with this resolution I composed myself for a time, and resolved that I would go to work with all speed to build me a wall with piles and cables, &c.”
Daniel Defoe · Robinson Crusoe (1719)
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“Thus I lived mighty comfortably, my mind being entirely composed by resigning myself to the will of God, and throwing myself wholly upon the disposal of His providence.”
Daniel Defoe · Robinson Crusoe (1719)
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“Bears not supreme control: laughter and tears Follow so closely on the passion prompts them, They wait not for the motions of the will In natures most sincere.”
Dante Alighieri · The Divine Comedy (c. 1320 · English translation 1814)
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“Dead the dead, The living seem’d alive; with clearer view His eye beheld not who beheld the truth, Than mine what I did tread on, while I went Low bending.”
Dante Alighieri · The Divine Comedy (c. 1320 · English translation 1814)
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“That the sun’s light is broken on the ground, Marvel not: but believe, that not without Virtue deriv’d from Heaven, we to climb Over this wall aspire.”
Dante Alighieri · The Divine Comedy (c. 1320 · English translation 1814)
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“The dame, so joyous enter, that the orb Grew brighter at her smiles; and, if the star Were mov’d to gladness, what then was my cheer, Whom nature hath made apt for every change!”
Dante Alighieri · The Divine Comedy (c. 1320 · English translation 1814)
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“But most of the patronage at all seasons seemed to consist of automobile parties from the city; people apparently drawn from all classes, or eluding definite classification entirely.”
Don Marquis · The Cruise of the Jasper B. (1916)
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“Indeed, the interest became so pronounced, and seemed of a quality so different from ordinary frank rustic curiosity, that it looked very like espionage.”
Don Marquis · The Cruise of the Jasper B. (1916)
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“Wharton stopped stroking his mustache so quickly and so amazedly that one might have thought he had run into a thorn amongst the hirsute growth and pricked a finger.”
Don Marquis · The Cruise of the Jasper B. (1916)
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“I merely wish you to bear in mind that, with myself, it was sufficiently forcible to give a definite form—a certain tendency—to my inquiries in the chamber.”
Edgar Allan Poe · The Works of Edgar Allan Poe (1845)
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“I often dwelt meditatively upon the old philosophy of the Bi-Part Soul, and amused myself with the fancy of a double Dupin—the creative and the resolvent.”
Edgar Allan Poe · The Works of Edgar Allan Poe (1845)
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“I thought you were jesting; but afterwards I called to mind the peculiar spots on the back of the insect, and admitted to myself that your remark had some little foundation in fact.”
Edgar Allan Poe · The Works of Edgar Allan Poe (1845)
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“My ancestors have also resided therein time out of mind—they, as well as myself, steadily following the respectable and indeed lucrative profession of mending of bellows.”
Edgar Allan Poe · The Works of Edgar Allan Poe (1845)
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“I did not feel myself altogether at liberty to engage in a task of this character with no more reliable witnesses than these people, in case of sudden accident, might prove.”
Edgar Allan Poe · The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 (1845)
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“I made the best of my condition, and exerted myself to secure the goodwill of the man-animal that owned the trumpet, and who appeared to exercise authority over his fellows.”
Edgar Allan Poe · The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 (1845)
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“Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees—very gradually—I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.”
Edgar Allan Poe · The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 (1845)
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“I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in,--glittering like the morning-star, full of life and splendor and joy.”
Edmund Burke · Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
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“The right honorable gentleman is of opinion that his judgment in this case can be censured by none but those who seem to act as if they were paid agents to one of the parties.”
Edmund Burke · Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
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“This I understand is at a growing rent, which may or may not realize what it promises; but if it should answer, it will raise the whole, at some future time, to 1,200,000l.”
Edmund Burke · Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
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“Whilst discovery of the misgovernment of others led to his own power, it was wise to inquire, it was safe to publish: there was then no delicacy; there was then no danger.”
Edmund Burke · Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
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“Neither love me for Thine own dear pity’s wiping my cheeks dry,— A creature might forget to weep, who bore Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning · Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
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“Of individual life, I shall command The uses of my soul, nor lift my hand Serenely in the sunshine as before, Without the sense of that which I forbore— Thy touch upon the palm.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning · Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
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“So darkly on my eyelids, as to amerce My sight from seeing thee,—that if I had died, The death-weights, placed there, would have signified Less absolute exclusion.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning · Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
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“He began to pace the room, muttering terrible things to himself, till I was inclined to believe, as he said Joseph did, that conscience had turned his heart to an earthly hell.”
Emily Brontë · Wuthering Heights (1847)
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“Next morning—bright and cheerful out of doors—stole softened in through the blinds of the silent room, and suffused the couch and its occupant with a mellow, tender glow.”
Emily Brontë · Wuthering Heights (1847)
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“The youth stepped forward, and acknowledged himself: she kissed him fervently, and they gazed with wonder at the change time had wrought in the appearance of each.”
Emily Brontë · Wuthering Heights (1847)
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“And go to pieces on the stones At bottom of my mind; Yet blamed the fate that fractured, less Than I reviled myself For entertaining plated wares Upon my silver shelf.”
Emily Dickinson · Poems: Three Series (1890)
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“Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all,”
Emily Dickinson · Hope, Poems: Second Series (1891)
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“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.”
Francis Bacon · The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625)
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“If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island, cut off from other lands, but a continent, that joins to them.”
Francis Bacon · The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625)
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From the essay "Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature".
“And the depraved custom of change, and the delight in meretricious embracements, (where sin is turned into art,) maketh marriage a dull thing, and a kind of imposition or tax.”
Francis Bacon · New Atlantis (1627)
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“God for his marvellous works: and forms of prayers, imploring his aid and blessing for the illumination of our labours, and the turning of them into good and holy uses.”
Francis Bacon · New Atlantis (1627)
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“We have also houses of deceits of the senses; where we represent all manner of feats of juggling, false apparitions, impostures, and illusions; and their fallacies.”
Francis Bacon · New Atlantis (1627)
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Frederick Douglass · West India Emancipation (1857)
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“O Zarathustra, I seek a genuine one, a right one, a simple one, an unequivocal one, a man of perfect honesty, a vessel of wisdom, a saint of knowledge, a great man!”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Thus Spake Zarathustra (1885 · English translation 1909)
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“This summer, finding myself once more in the sacred place where the first thought of ‘Zarathustra’ flashed across my mind, I conceived the second part.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Thus Spake Zarathustra (1885 · English translation 1909)
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“With the eye of the thief it looketh upon all that is lustrous; with the craving of hunger it measureth him who hath abundance; and ever doth it prowl round the tables of bestowers.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Thus Spake Zarathustra (1885 · English translation 1909)
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“I do not believe that an "impulse to knowledge" is the father of philosophy; but that another impulse, here as elsewhere, has only made use of knowledge (and mistaken knowledge!”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Beyond Good and Evil (1886 · English translation 1906)
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“Royal, or Puritanism, one should remember the constraint under which every language has attained to strength and freedom--the metrical constraint, the tyranny of rhyme and rhythm.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Beyond Good and Evil (1886 · English translation 1906)
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“Was it not necessary in the end for men to sacrifice everything comforting, holy, healing, all hope, all faith in hidden harmonies, in future blessedness and justice?”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Beyond Good and Evil (1886 · English translation 1906)
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“And in my anger I shall betray myself,” flashed through his mind again.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky · Crime and Punishment (1866 · English translation 1914)
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“I have only lately learned it from a great-hearted man to whom I have given myself and with whom I am establishing a community.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky · Crime and Punishment (1866 · English translation 1914)
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“I should think myself very lucky, because I like the girl very much; but as it is, no one has ever treated her more courteously than I, with more respect for her dignity.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky · Crime and Punishment (1866 · English translation 1914)
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“Katerina Ivanovna’s eyes and was treated by her with extraordinary respect, probably only because Amalia Ivanovna had thrown herself heart and soul into the preparations.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky · Crime and Punishment (1866 · English translation 1914)
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“Raskolnikov at once pretended not to have seen him, but to be looking absent-mindedly away, while he watched him out of the corner of his eye.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky · Crime and Punishment (1866 · English translation 1914)
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“Rodion Romanovitch, by temperament; it’s out of proportion with other qualities of your heart and character, which I flatter myself I have to some extent divined.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky · Crime and Punishment (1866 · English translation 1914)
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“The sunlight was bright in the room; the incense rose in clouds; the priest read, “Give rest, oh Lord.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky · Crime and Punishment (1866 · English translation 1914)
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“Allow me, Father Superior, though I am a buffoon and play the buffoon, yet I am the soul of honor, and I want to speak my mind.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky · The Brothers Karamazov (1880 · English translation 1912)
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“And hearing it I have said to myself: it is the correction of the Lord and He has sent it to heal my vain soul.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky · The Brothers Karamazov (1880 · English translation 1912)
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“Fyodor Pavlovitch’s position at the time made him specially eager for any such enterprise, for he was passionately anxious to make a career in one way or another.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky · The Brothers Karamazov (1880 · English translation 1912)
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“Grigory and Marfa, but the boy grew up “with no sense of gratitude,” as Grigory expressed it; he was an unfriendly boy, and seemed to look at the world mistrustfully.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky · The Brothers Karamazov (1880 · English translation 1912)
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“I came here to find a wicked soul—I felt drawn to evil because I was base and evil myself, and I’ve found a true sister, I have found a treasure—a loving heart.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky · The Brothers Karamazov (1880 · English translation 1912)
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“It was at this time that the discord between Dmitri and his father seemed at its acutest stage and their relations had become insufferably strained.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky · The Brothers Karamazov (1880 · English translation 1912)
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“The Confession Of A Passionate Heart—In Verse Alyosha remained for some time irresolute after hearing the command his father shouted to him from the carriage.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky · The Brothers Karamazov (1880 · English translation 1912)
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“Do you know that since she grew up to years of discretion, I don't believe she has ever once given her own wish as a reason for doing anything or not doing it.”
George Bernard Shaw · Man and Superman (1903)
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“God who looked at the world and saw that it was good, against the instinct in me that looked through my eyes at the world and saw that it could be improved.”
George Bernard Shaw · Man and Superman (1903)
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“Life, and thereby enable the individual to work for that purpose instead of thwarting and baffling it by setting up shortsighted personal aims as at present.”
George Bernard Shaw · Man and Superman (1903)
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“Tavy is a generous lad and the soul of honor; and when I see how little consideration other men get from their sons, I realize how much better than a son he's been to me.”
George Bernard Shaw · Man and Superman (1903)
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“You know, Mr Ramsden, I don't care about money or about what people call position; and I can't bring myself to take an interest in the business of struggling for them.”
George Bernard Shaw · Man and Superman (1903)
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“I have always made you my companions and friends, and allowed you perfect freedom to do and say whatever you liked, so long as you liked what I could approve of.”
George Bernard Shaw · Major Barbara (1905)
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“The man, a workman out of employment, is young, agile, a talker, a poser, sharp enough to be capable of anything in reason except honesty or altruistic considerations of any kind.”
George Bernard Shaw · Major Barbara (1905)
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“Until I met Barbara I thought myself in the main an honorable, truthful man, because I wanted the approval of my conscience more than I wanted anything else.”
George Bernard Shaw · Major Barbara (1905)
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“You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game.”
George Bernard Shaw · Major Barbara (1905)
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“All the rest have gone except the note taker, the gentleman, and the flower girl, who sits arranging her basket, and still pitying herself in murmurs.”
George Bernard Shaw · Pygmalion (1913)
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“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds,”
George Eliot · Adam Bede (1859)
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“I often can’t help saying of you what the hymn says— In darkest shades if she appear, My dawning is begun; She is my soul’s bright morning-star, And she my rising sun.”
George Eliot · Adam Bede (1859)
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“Master, and are striving after the same gifts; and I’d never be the husband to make a claim on you as could interfere with your doing the work God has fitted you for.”
George Eliot · Adam Bede (1859)
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“Blessed Virgin sat in the prow, shedding a light around as of the moon in its brightness, so that the rowers in the gathering darkness took heart and pulled anew.”
George Eliot · The Mill on the Floss (1860)
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“Her father’s eyes were still turned uneasily toward the door when she entered and met the strange, yearning, helpless look that had been seeking her in vain.”
George Eliot · The Mill on the Floss (1860)
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“Mr Poulter’s fixed eye and hungry-looking sword, which seemed impatient for something else to cut besides the air, admired the performance from as great a distance as possible.”
George Eliot · The Mill on the Floss (1860)
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“The slanting sunlight fell kindly upon them, and the scene was really very pretty and comfortable, Maggie thought, only she hoped they would soon set out the tea-cups.”
George Eliot · The Mill on the Floss (1860)
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“Thus the morning had been made heavy to Maggie, and Tom’s persistent coldness to her all through their walk spoiled the fresh air and sunshine for her.”
George Eliot · The Mill on the Floss (1860)
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“That big muscular frame of his held plenty of animal courage, but helped him to no decision when the dangers to be braved were such as could neither be knocked down nor throttled.”
George Eliot · Silas Marner (1861)
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“Changed, therefore, inasmuch as there has been a growth of spirituality.”
George Sand · Indiana (1832 · English translation 1900)
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“Crossjay made the discovery that if he abstained from alluding to Miss Middleton's beauty he might water his dusty path with her name nearly as much as he liked.”
George Sand · Indiana (1832 · English translation 1900)
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“Further to add to the complexity, he loved his liberty; he was princelier free; he had more subjects, more slaves; he ruled arrogantly in the world of women; he was more himself.”
George Sand · Indiana (1832 · English translation 1900)
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“Had she seen him with the eyes of the world, thinking they were her own?”
George Sand · Indiana (1832 · English translation 1900)
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“Her intense personal sympathy, it might be; he thought so with some gentle pity for her--of the paternal pat-back order of pity.”
George Sand · Indiana (1832 · English translation 1900)
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“I have latterly become an Egoist, thinking of no one but myself, scheming to make use of every soul I meet.”
George Sand · Indiana (1832 · English translation 1900)
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“It would be to deny myself possession of grace, beauty, wit, all the incomparable charms of loveliness of mind and person in woman, and plant myself in a desert.”
George Sand · Indiana (1832 · English translation 1900)
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“Easy Street, dreaming in the sun; Never a policeman there to cut in on his fun; Never had a cook around threatening to leave; “Bridge” was not invented in the days of Mrs.”
Grantland Rice · Base-ball Ballads (1910)
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“Not just to conquer where some one must lose, Or reach the goal, whatever be the cost: For there are other, better ways to choose, Though in the end the battle may be lost.”
Grantland Rice · Base-ball Ballads (1910)
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“They called him “Strike-Out Casey,” from the mayor down the line; And as he came to bat each day his bosom heaved a sigh, While a look of hopeless fury shone in mighty Casey’s eye.”
Grantland Rice · Base-ball Ballads (1910)
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“And he looked at her with a tenderness in his eyes such as she had never seen.”
Gustave Flaubert · Madame Bovary (1857 · English translation 1886)
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“If his work and conduct are satisfactory, he will go into one of the upper classes, as becomes his age.”
Gustave Flaubert · Madame Bovary (1857 · English translation 1886)
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“In bed, in the morning, by her side, on the pillow, he watched the sunlight sinking into the down on her fair cheek, half hidden by the lappets of her night-cap.”
Gustave Flaubert · Madame Bovary (1857 · English translation 1886)
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“Lively once, expansive and affectionate, in growing older she had become (after the fashion of wine that, exposed to air, turns to vinegar) ill-tempered, grumbling, irritable.”
Gustave Flaubert · Madame Bovary (1857 · English translation 1886)
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“Maids an the warmth of a summer day Dream of love, and of love always” And all the rest was about birds and sunshine and green leaves.”
Gustave Flaubert · Madame Bovary (1857 · English translation 1886)
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“Seeing his pupil’s eyes staring he drew a long breath; then going around him he looked at him from head to foot.”
Gustave Flaubert · Madame Bovary (1857 · English translation 1886)
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“She showed him the impossibility of their love, and that they must remain, as formerly, on the simple terms of a fraternal friendship.”
Gustave Flaubert · Madame Bovary (1857 · English translation 1886)
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“At last I tore my eyes from it for a moment, and saw that the hail curtain had worn threadbare, and that the sky was lightening with the promise of the sun.”
H. G. Wells · The Time Machine (1895)
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“But, looking, I presently saw something stirring within the shadow: greyish billowy movements, one above another, and then two luminous disks—like eyes.”
H. G. Wells · The War of the Worlds (1898)
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“I began walking, therefore, in a big curve, seeking some point of vantage and continually looking at the sand-heaps that hid these new-comers to our earth.”
H. G. Wells · The War of the Worlds (1898)
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“I turned his project over in my mind, and presently objections and doubts began to arise; but I worked there all the morning, so glad was I to find myself with a purpose again.”
H. G. Wells · The War of the Worlds (1898)
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“Laborious years had passed since then; and now my brother and I were slaves to the man who had defrauded her of her money, and tried to defraud her of her freedom.”
Harriet Jacobs · Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
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“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
Henry David Thoreau · Walden (1854)
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“Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.”
Henry David Thoreau · Walden (1854)
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“Do you pretend to say, landlord, that this harpooneer is actually engaged this blessed Saturday night, or rather Sunday morning, in peddling his head around this town?”
Herman Melville · Moby-Dick (1851)
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“I know, too, that ever since he lost his leg last voyage by that accursed whale, he’s been a kind of moody—desperate moody, and savage sometimes; but that will all pass off.”
Herman Melville · Moby-Dick (1851)
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“Among the manifestations of his diseased ambition was a fondness he had for receiving visits from certain ambiguous-looking fellows in seedy coats, whom he called his clients.”
Herman Melville · Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853)
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“I should have stated before that ground glass folding-doors divided my premises into two parts, one of which was occupied by my scriveners, the other by myself.”
Herman Melville · Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853)
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“Now and then, in the haste of business, it had been my habit to assist in comparing some brief document myself, calling Turkey or Nippers for this purpose.”
Herman Melville · Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853)
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“However, that is not the point; you have seen him and nothing can change your heart; you have chosen him, comprehend his soul, it is as beautiful as he himself.”
Honoré de Balzac · Modeste Mignon (1844)
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“I loved an honest man, with no falsehood on his face, upright as yourself, incapable of disguising himself like an actor, with the paint of another man’s glory on his cheeks.”
Honoré de Balzac · Modeste Mignon (1844)
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“The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.”
Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Southern Horrors (1892)
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“It has closed the heart, stifled the conscience, warped the judgment and hushed the voice of press and pulpit on the subject of lynch law throughout this "land of liberty.”
Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Southern Horrors (1892)
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“They honestly believed the race should fit itself for government, and when that should be done, the objection to race participation in politics would be removed.”
Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Southern Horrors (1892)
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“Those negroes who are attempting to make the lynching of individuals of their race a means for arousing the worst passions of their kind are playing with a dangerous sentiment.”
Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Southern Horrors (1892)
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“Christian virtues and to inspire in them the moral sentiments manifest in their own lives, these young women braved dangers whose record reads more like fiction than fact.”
Ida B. Wells-Barnett · The Red Record (1895)
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“Negro, the inevitable result of unbribled power exercised for two and a half centuries, by the white man over the Negro, began to show itself in acts of conscienceless outlawry.”
Ida B. Wells-Barnett · The Red Record (1895)
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“Problem," it is the problem of the civilized world, and Tennessee could not afford to refuse the legal measures which Christianity demands shall be used for the punishment of crime.”
Ida B. Wells-Barnett · The Red Record (1895)
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“Vance had at some time given him cause to seek revenge and that this fearful crime was the outgrowth of his attempt to avenge himself of some real or fancied wrong.”
Ida B. Wells-Barnett · The Red Record (1895)
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“Accordingly the action was done neither from duty nor from direct inclination, but merely with a selfish view.”
Immanuel Kant · Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals (1785 · English translation 1879)
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“For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.”
Immanuel Kant · Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals (1785 · English translation 1879)
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“I also set aside those actions which really conform to duty, but to which men have no direct inclination, performing them because they are impelled thereto by some other inclination.”
Immanuel Kant · Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals (1785 · English translation 1879)
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“It is true that moral laws and duty are spoken of in the general moral philosophy (contrary indeed to all fitness).”
Immanuel Kant · Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals (1785 · English translation 1879)
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“Now the suspicion is removed which we raised above, that there was a latent circle involved in our reasoning from freedom to autonomy, and from this to the moral law, viz.”
Immanuel Kant · Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals (1785 · English translation 1879)
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“What else then can freedom of the will be but autonomy, that is, the property of the will to be a law to itself?”
Immanuel Kant · Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals (1785 · English translation 1879)
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“So act as to treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as means only.”
Immanuel Kant · Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals (1785 · English translation 1879)
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Translated by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals (1785).
“Hold your tongue," said his wife; "so many imprudent people have already lost their lives, it were a shame and sin to such beautiful eyes that they should not see the light again.”
Jacob Grimm · Grimm's Fairy Stories (1812)
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“It was very close quarters, and besides that, the sausages were suspended to smoke in the chimney, which was by no means entertaining, and the time passed slowly.”
Jacob Grimm · Grimm's Fairy Stories (1812)
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“Witches have red eyes, and cannot see very far; but they have a fine sense of smelling, like wild beasts, so that they know when children approach them.”
Jacob Grimm · Grimm's Fairy Stories (1812)
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“He had been to several families that morning in hopes of procuring some addition to their number, but it was moonlight and every body was full of engagements.”
Jane Austen · Sense and Sensibility (1811)
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“I have trusted you, because I know he has the highest opinion in the world of all your family, and looks upon yourself and the other Miss Dashwoods quite as his own sisters.”
Jane Austen · Sense and Sensibility (1811)
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“Indeed, I can easily believe that it was a very great relief to you, to acknowledge your situation to me, and be assured that you shall never have reason to repent it.”
Jane Austen · Sense and Sensibility (1811)
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“To Marianne it had all the distinguishing tenderness which a lover’s heart could give, and to the rest of the family it was the affectionate attention of a son and a brother.”
Jane Austen · Sense and Sensibility (1811)
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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”
Jane Austen · Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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“Miss Woodhouse, as you will not give me your opinion, I must do as well as I can by myself; and I have now quite determined, and really almost made up my mind—to refuse Mr.”
Jane Austen · Emma (1815)
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“Anne, who saw that Captain Wentworth was all attention, looking and listening with his whole soul; and that the last words brought his enquiring eyes from Charles to herself.”
Jane Austen · Persuasion (1817)
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“It must not be, if by any fair interference of friendship, any representations from one who had almost a mother’s love, and mother’s rights, it would be prevented.”
Jane Austen · Persuasion (1817)
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“Drooping its beauty o'er the watery clearness, To woo its own sad image into nearness: Deaf to light Zephyrus it would not move; But still would seem to droop, to pine, to love.”
John Keats · Poems 1817 (1817)
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“Mingler with leaves, and dew and tumbling streams, Closer of lovely eyes to lovely dreams, Lover of loneliness, and wandering, Of upcast eye, and tender pondering!”
John Keats · Poems 1817 (1817)
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“O let me for one moment touch her wrist; Let me one moment to her breathing list; And as she leaves me may she often turn Her fair eyes looking through her locks auburne.”
John Keats · Poems 1817 (1817)
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“When, like a cloud, he sits upon the air, Preparing on his spell-bound prey to dart: Chace him away, sweet Hope, with visage bright, And fright him as the morning frightens night!”
John Keats · Poems 1817 (1817)
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“But I am certain that a State governed by the rules of justice and fortitude, or a Church built and founded upon the rock of faith and true knowledge, cannot be so pusillanimous.”
John Milton · Areopagitica (1644)
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“By this time the emperors were become Christians, whose discipline in this point I do not find to have been more severe than what was formerly in practice.”
John Milton · Areopagitica (1644)
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“When God gave him reason, he gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions.”
John Milton · Areopagitica (1644)
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“And venturous, if that fail them, shrink, and fear What yet they know must follow—to endure Exile, or ignominy, or bonds, or pain, The sentence of their Conqueror.”
John Milton · Paradise Lost (1667)
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“But further way found none, so thick entwined, As one continued brake, the undergrowth Of shrubs and tangling bushes had perplexed All path of man or beast that passed that way.”
John Milton · Paradise Lost (1667)
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“Satan from hence, now on the lower stair, That scaled by steps of gold to Heaven-gate, Looks down with wonder at the sudden view Of all this world at once.”
John Milton · Paradise Lost (1667)
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“Thus while he spake, each passion dimmed his face Thrice changed with pale, ire, envy, and despair; Which marred his borrowed visage, and betrayed Him counterfeit, if any eye beheld.”
John Milton · Paradise Lost (1667)
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“Useful of hurtful, prosperous of adverse, We can create, and in what place soe’er Thrive under evil, and work ease out of pain Through labour and endurance.”
John Milton · Paradise Lost (1667)
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“Wondering at my flight and change To this high exaltation; suddenly My guide was gone, and I, methought, sunk down, And fell asleep; but O, how glad I waked To find this but a dream!”
John Milton · Paradise Lost (1667)
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“A writer to the London Times in 1874 pointed out that in 1748 the family of Frederick, Prince of Wales, were represented as engaged in a game of base-ball.”
John Montgomery Ward · Base-Ball: How to Become a Player (1888)
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“But if the fielder has good reason to suspect the honesty of the runner's intentions, a quick throw to second, instead of to third, will often catch him before he can return.”
John Montgomery Ward · Base-Ball: How to Become a Player (1888)
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“On account of the associations by which a professional game of base-ball was supposed to be surrounded, it was for a long time thought not a proper sport for the patronage of ladies.”
John Montgomery Ward · Base-Ball: How to Become a Player (1888)
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“Several passages in Homer rather sustain this latter view, and, therefore, with the weight of evidence, and to the glory of woman, we, too, shall adopt this theory.”
John Montgomery Ward · Base-Ball: How to Become a Player (1888)
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“There are always two opposing teams of nine players each, and they play on a field laid out in the shape of a diamond, as seen in time diagram on the following page.”
John Montgomery Ward · Base-Ball: How to Become a Player (1888)
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“James Mill, the father; but the passage quoted is not the only one in which John Stuart Mill proclaims his unhesitating belief in the intellectual influence of his wife.”
John Stuart Mill · On Liberty (1859)
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“The instinct of the woman often enables her not only to apprehend but to illustrate a truth for which she would be totally unable to give the adequate philosophic reasoning.”
John Stuart Mill · On Liberty (1859)
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“Llewellyn Davis), has objected to this passage, saying, "Surely the rightness or wrongness of saving a man from drowning does depend very much upon the motive with which it is done.”
John Stuart Mill · Utilitarianism (1861)
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“Ruler of the Universe, along with whatever we may have of sympathy or affection for them or of love and awe of Him, inclining us to do His will independently of selfish consequences.”
John Stuart Mill · Utilitarianism (1861)
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“Thus, it would often be expedient, for the purpose of getting over some momentary embarrassment, or attaining some object immediately useful to ourselves or others, to tell a lie.”
John Stuart Mill · Utilitarianism (1861)
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“What is there to decide whether a particular pleasure is worth purchasing at the cost of a particular pain, except the feelings and judgment of the experienced?”
John Stuart Mill · Utilitarianism (1861)
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“When we engage in a pursuit, a clear and precise conception of what we are pursuing would seem to be the first thing we need, instead of the last we are to look forward to.”
John Stuart Mill · Utilitarianism (1861)
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“But it would be a mistake to suppose that the difficulty of the case must lie in the insufficiency or obscurity of the grounds of reason on which my conviction rests.”
John Stuart Mill · The Subjection of Women (1869)
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“In most European countries it was not till towards the close of the middle ages, and as a consequence of the growth of regal power, that commoners could be ennobled.”
John Stuart Mill · The Subjection of Women (1869)
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“In the immense majority of cases there is no settlement: and the absorption of all rights, all property, as well as all freedom of action, is complete.”
John Stuart Mill · The Subjection of Women (1869)
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“Europe, by teaching us the first principles of honour, justice, truth, temperance, public spirit, fortitude, chastity, friendship, benevolence, and fidelity.”
Jonathan Swift · Gulliver's Travels (1726)
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“I see myself accused of reflecting upon great state folk; of degrading human nature (for so they have still the confidence to style it), and of abusing the female sex.”
Jonathan Swift · Gulliver's Travels (1726)
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“The living trees, lashed together by the creepers and every living bush of the undergrowth, might have been changed into stone, even to the slenderest twig, to the lightest leaf.”
Joseph Conrad · Heart of Darkness (1899)
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“The captain of the ship laid a restraining hand on that boy, who seemed on the point of leaping overboard, and Jim looked up with the pain of conscious defeat in his eyes.”
Joseph Conrad · Lord Jim (1900)
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“Royalism, of Legitimacy, that pervaded the room, thin as air, intangible, as though no Legitimist of flesh and blood had ever existed to the man’s mind except perhaps myself.”
Joseph Conrad · The Arrow of Gold (1919)
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“Martin Tully's house, and you never bringing as much as a blanket, or a penny, or a suit of clothes with you and I myself bringing seventy pounds and two feather beds.”
Lady Augusta Gregory · Seven Short Plays (1909)
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“But though the Tao as it comes from the mouth, seems insipid and has no flavour, though it seems not worth being looked at or listened to, the use of it is inexhaustible.”
Laozi · The Tao Teh King (1891)
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“He who knows other men is discerning; he who knows himself is intelligent.”
Laozi · The Tao Teh King (Ancient China · English translation 1891)
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“He who overcomes others is strong; he who overcomes himself is mighty.”
Laozi · The Tao Teh King (Ancient China · English translation 1891)
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Laozi · The Tao Teh King (Ancient China · English translation 1891)
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“To those who are good (to me), I am good; and to those who are not good (to me), I am also good;--and thus (all) get to be good.”
Laozi · The Tao Teh King (Ancient China · English translation 1891)
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“Dólokhov, who with a bottle of rum in his hand was approaching the window, from which the light of the sky, the dawn merging with the afterglow of sunset, was visible.”
Leo Tolstoy · War and Peace (1869 · English translation 1922)
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“He was surprised to find that this inner freedom, which was independent of external conditions, now had as it were an additional setting of external liberty.”
Leo Tolstoy · War and Peace (1869 · English translation 1922)
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“His eyes too seemed strange; at one moment they looked impudently sly and at the next glanced round in alarm.”
Leo Tolstoy · War and Peace (1869 · English translation 1922)
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“Prince Bagratión screwed up his eyes, looked round, and, seeing the cause of the confusion, turned away with indifference, as if to say, “Is it worth while noticing trifles?”
Leo Tolstoy · War and Peace (1869 · English translation 1922)
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“Rostóv’s family, but by the tender friendship his commander showed him, Rostóv felt that the elder hussar’s luckless love for Natásha played a part in strengthening their friendship.”
Leo Tolstoy · War and Peace (1869 · English translation 1922)
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“The storm was long since over and there was bright, joyous sunshine on Natásha’s face as she gazed tenderly at her husband and child.”
Leo Tolstoy · War and Peace (1869 · English translation 1922)
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“Then, as happens to people of weak character, he desired so passionately once more to enjoy that dissipation he was so accustomed to that he decided to go.”
Leo Tolstoy · War and Peace (1869 · English translation 1922)
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“Anna had never seen before, and he got up quickly and went to meet her, looking not at her eyes, but above them at her forehead and hair.”
Leo Tolstoy · Anna Karenina (1878 · English translation 1901)
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“He did not acknowledge this feeling, but at the bottom of his heart he longed for her to suffer for having destroyed his peace of mind—his honor.”
Leo Tolstoy · Anna Karenina (1878 · English translation 1901)
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“I made up my mind that it could never be, you understand, as a happiness that does not come on earth; but I’ve struggled with myself, I see there’s no living without it.”
Leo Tolstoy · Anna Karenina (1878 · English translation 1901)
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“I was ready to defend those rights to the utmost, to defend my rights to education and freedom.”
Leo Tolstoy · Anna Karenina (1878 · English translation 1901)
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“Moreover, his attitude to Kitty in the past—the attitude of a grown-up person to a child, arising from his friendship with her brother—seemed to him yet another obstacle to love.”
Leo Tolstoy · Anna Karenina (1878 · English translation 1901)
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“There seemed no likelihood that she could make out this complicated sentence; but he looked at her as though his life depended on her understanding the words.”
Leo Tolstoy · Anna Karenina (1878 · English translation 1901)
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“Your feelings are an affair of your own conscience; but I am in duty bound to you, to myself, and to God, to point out to you your duties.”
Leo Tolstoy · Anna Karenina (1878 · English translation 1901)
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“Begin at the beginning,” the King said gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
Lewis Carroll · Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
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“it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
Lewis Carroll · Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
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“Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not much larger than a rat-hole: she knelt down and looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw.”
Lewis Carroll · Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
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“And yet I don’t know,” he went on, spreading out the verses on his knee, and looking at them with one eye; “I seem to see some meaning in them, after all.”
Lewis Carroll · Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
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“Alice, suddenly jumping up, “if I don’t make haste I shall have to go back through the Looking-glass, before I’ve seen what the rest of the house is like!”
Lewis Carroll · Through the Looking-Glass (1871)
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“Looking-glass House, if you leave the door of our drawing-room wide open: and it’s very like our passage as far as you can see, only you know it may be quite different on beyond.”
Lewis Carroll · Through the Looking-Glass (1871)
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“Then she began looking about, and noticed that what could be seen from the old room was quite common and uninteresting, but that all the rest was as different as possible.”
Lewis Carroll · Through the Looking-Glass (1871)
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“Glassed with its dancing light the sunny ray; But o'er the blackened memory's blighting dream Thy waves would vainly roll, all sweeping as they seem.”
Lord Byron · Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1818)
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“Our children should obey her child, and blessed Her and her hoped-for seed, whose promise seemed Like star to shepherd's eyes; 'twas but a meteor beamed.”
Lord Byron · Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1818)
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“We stand, and in that form and face behold What Mind can make, when Nature's self would fail; And to the fond idolaters of old Envy the innate flash which such a soul could mould: L.”
Lord Byron · Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1818)
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“Yet Time, who changes all, had altered him In soul and aspect as in age: years steal Fire from the mind as vigour from the limb; And life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.”
Lord Byron · Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1818)
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“Laurence, asking me to come over and play to him tonight, before the lamps are lighted, and I shall go,” added Beth, whose friendship with the old gentleman prospered finely.”
Louisa May Alcott · Little Women (1868)
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“NG The June roses over the porch were awake bright and early on that morning, rejoicing with all their hearts in the cloudless sunshine, like friendly little neighbors, as they were.”
Louisa May Alcott · Little Women (1868)
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“I must both repay more, and even when I have repaid his kindness we remain connected, for when I have paid my debt I ought again to renew it, while our friendship endures unbroken.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca · On Benefits (Ancient Rome · English translation 1887)
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“Seneca must have felt that he was labouring to build up a house without foundations; that his system, as Caius said of his style, was sand without lime.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca · On Benefits (Ancient Rome · English translation 1887)
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“Never esteem of anything as profitable, which shall ever constrain thee either to break thy faith, or to lose thy modesty; to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to dissemble, to lust after anything, that requireth the secret of walls or veils.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations (Ancient Rome · English translation 1634 (ed. 1906))
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Meric Casaubon translation; Meditations, Book III.
“He was from Constantinople, twelve miles away—so he had travelled, and seen the world—these very eyes had looked upon the county court-house—which was said to have a tin roof.”
Mark Twain · The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
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“Her graceful form, arrayed in snowy robes, is whirling through the mazes of the joyous dance; her eye is brightest, her step is lightest in the gay assembly.”
Mark Twain · The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
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“I see that the big one was the deaf and dumb Spaniard, by his white whiskers and the patch on his eye, and t’other one was a rusty, ragged-looking devil.”
Mark Twain · The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
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“The world was bright with sunshine outside, but a deep and mellow twilight reigned in there, and also a deep silence so profound that I seemed to hear my own breathings.”
Mark Twain · A Tramp Abroad (1880)
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“These things are suffering damage and passing to decay, for the last Hirschhorn has been dead two hundred years, and there is nobody now who cares to preserve the family relics.”
Mark Twain · A Tramp Abroad (1880)
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“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.”
Mark Twain · Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
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“I had about made up my mind I would stay there all night when I hear a plunkety-plunk, plunkety-plunk, and says to myself, horses coming; and next I hear people’s voices.”
Mark Twain · Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
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“By what illustrious achievement for the honor of the Throne and State did the founder of your great line lift himself to the sacred dignity of the British nobility?”
Mark Twain · A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)
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“I--well, I myself, if I've got to confess--” “Peradventure she--” “Never mind her; never mind her; I tell you I couldn't ever explain her so you would understand.”
Mark Twain · A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)
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“Fans held the opinion that the old Scotch lady had regarding certain passages in the history of the early Jews--that it was a long time ago, and aiblins it was no true.”
Mary Kingsley · Travels in West Africa (1897)
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“I found myself in possession of five or six months which were not heavily forestalled, and feeling like a boy with a new half-crown, I lay about in my mind, as Mr.”
Mary Kingsley · Travels in West Africa (1897)
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“Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they were unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember.”
Mary Shelley · Frankenstein (1818)
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“Thus not the tenderness of friendship, nor the beauty of earth, nor of heaven, could redeem my soul from woe; the very accents of love were ineffectual.”
Mary Shelley · Frankenstein (1818)
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“A blind unsettled affection may, like human passions, occupy the mind and warm the heart, whilst, to do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God, is forgotten.”
Mary Wollstonecraft · A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
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“There is no better, there is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy, than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle.”
Michael Faraday · The Chemical History of a Candle (1861)
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“I am obliged to be quick and ready, because, if I allow the vapour time to cool, it becomes condensed into a liquid or solid, or the stream of combustible matter gets disturbed.”
Michael Faraday · The Chemical History of a Candle (1861)
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“And other people of the same New World carry about with them, in their wars, the relics of valiant men who have died in battle, to incite their courage and advance their fortune.”
Michel de Montaigne · Essays of Montaigne (1580 · English translation 1685)
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“Augustin, disputing against these people, has good cause to reproach them with injustice, “In that they maintain the part of our belief to be false that our reason cannot establish.”
Michel de Montaigne · Essays of Montaigne (1580 · English translation 1685)
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“I have forbidden myself to dare to alter even the most light and indifferent circumstances; my conscience does not falsify one tittle; what my ignorance may do, I cannot say.”
Michel de Montaigne · Essays of Montaigne (1580 · English translation 1685)
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“I have this vice in so great horror, that I am not sure I could prevail with my conscience to secure myself from the most manifest and extreme danger by an impudent and solemn lie.”
Michel de Montaigne · Essays of Montaigne (1580 · English translation 1685)
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“The fear of future ills often makes men run into extreme danger; he is truly brave who boldly dares withstand the mischiefs he apprehends, when they confront him and can be deferred.”
Michel de Montaigne · Essays of Montaigne (1580 · English translation 1685)
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“I enjoyed with Don Fernando had grown into friendship, he made all his thoughts known to me, and in particular a love affair which troubled his mind a little.”
Miguel de Cervantes · Don Quixote (1605 · English translation 1885)
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“I murmur at your beauty;” or again, “the high heavens, that of your divinity divinely fortify you with the stars, render you deserving of the desert your greatness deserves.”
Miguel de Cervantes · Don Quixote (1605 · English translation 1885)
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“Marcela, the love of Chrysostom, and the loyalty of your friendship, together with the end awaiting those who pursue rashly the path that insane passion opens to their eyes.”
Miguel de Cervantes · Don Quixote (1605 · English translation 1885)
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“Meanwhile Don Quixote worked upon a farm labourer, a neighbour of his, an honest man (if indeed that title can be given to him who is poor), but with very little wit in his pate.”
Miguel de Cervantes · Don Quixote (1605 · English translation 1885)
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“The drama had by this time outgrown market-place stages and strolling companies, and with his old love for it he naturally turned to it for a congenial employment.”
Miguel de Cervantes · Don Quixote (1605 · English translation 1885)
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“House experience, moonlight and sunshine, and the glow of firelight, were just alike in my regard; and neither of them was of one whit more avail than the twinkle of a tallow-candle.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne · The Scarlet Letter (1850)
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“Longfellow’s hearthstone—it was time, at length, that I should exercise other faculties of my nature, and nourish myself with food for which I had hitherto had little appetite.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne · The Scarlet Letter (1850)
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“Open a passage; and I promise ye, Mistress Prynne shall be set where man, woman, and child may have a fair sight of her brave apparel from this time till an hour past meridian.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne · The Scarlet Letter (1850)
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“Prynne,” said he, leaning over the balcony and looking down steadfastly into her eyes, “thou hearest what this good man says, and seest the accountability under which I labour.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne · The Scarlet Letter (1850)
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“What she compelled herself to believe—what, finally, she reasoned upon as her motive for continuing a resident of New England—was half a truth, and half a self-delusion.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne · The Scarlet Letter (1850)
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“Would thou have me to believe, O wise and pious friend, that a false show can be better—can be more for God’s glory, or man’s welfare—than God’s own truth?”
Nathaniel Hawthorne · The Scarlet Letter (1850)
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“Her eyes looked larger, and darker, and deeper; so deep, at some silent moments, that they seemed like Artesian wells, down, down, into the infinite.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne · The House of the Seven Gables (1851)
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“I am about taking a walk to the seashore, before going to my rooms, where I misuse Heaven’s blessed sunshine by tracing out human features through its agency.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne · The House of the Seven Gables (1851)
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“For she was a firm believer in the chinks in the world above, where not only ears, but eyes might be applied to see how things went on in this world below.”
Olive Schreiner · The Story of an African Farm (1883)
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“He howled, till the tarantulas, who lived between the rafters and the zinc roof, felt the unusual vibration, and looked out with their wicked bright eyes, to see what was going on.”
Olive Schreiner · The Story of an African Farm (1883)
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“It seemed that as the fellow’s dark eyes looked across the brown earth they kindled with an intense satisfaction; then they looked back at the carving.”
Olive Schreiner · The Story of an African Farm (1883)
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“I think it worthy of her, nor yet because of the splendid part she has played in the struggle of the women fighting today in England for certain forms of freedom for all women.”
Olive Schreiner · Woman and Labour (1911)
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“So far from the economic freedom and social independence of the woman exterminating sexual love between man and woman, it would for the first time fully enfranchise it.”
Olive Schreiner · Woman and Labour (1911)
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“So intensely rapid is the change which is taking place in our environment and knowledge that in the course of a single life a man may pass through half a dozen phases of growth.”
Olive Schreiner · Woman and Labour (1911)
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“we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Oscar Wilde · Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892)
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“Apollo was like the sun's disc crescent over a hill at dawn, and his feet were as the wings of the morning, but he himself had been cruel to Marsyas and had made Niobe childless.”
Oscar Wilde · De Profundis (1905)
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“But the spiritual man, as yet unseeing in his proper person, looks out on the world through the eyes of the psychical man, by whom he is enfolded and enmeshed.”
Patañjali · The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Ancient India · English translation 1912)
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“In faith and aspiration, we pass from day to day, in growing knowledge and power, with never more than one day to solve at a time, until all life becomes radiant and transparent.”
Patañjali · The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Ancient India · English translation 1912)
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“Some of the schools of India say that the psychic nature is, as it were, a looking-glass, wherein are mirrored the things seen by the physical eyes, and heard by the physical ears.”
Patañjali · The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Ancient India · English translation 1912)
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“In characters indelible and known; So, trembling with the shock of sad surprise, The soul doth view its awful self alone, Ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes.”
Paul Laurence Dunbar · The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar (1922)
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“Nor shall the sorrows of departed years The sweetness of our tranquil souls annoy, The sunshine of our hopes dispels the tears, And clears our eyes to see this later joy.”
Paul Laurence Dunbar · The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar (1922)
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“And seek substantial and immortal joys; Where hope receives, where faith to vision springs, And raptur'd seraphs tune th' immortal strings To strains extatic.”
Phillis Wheatley · Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773)
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“But unavailing, frantic is the dream To hope thine aid without the aid of him Who gave thee birth and taught thee where to flow, And in thy waves his various blessings show.”
Phillis Wheatley · Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773)
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“Her morning sun, which rose divinely bright, Was quickly mantled with the gloom of night; But hear in heav'n's blest bow'rs your Nancy fair, And learn to imitate her language there.”
Phillis Wheatley · Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773)
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“Or when the morning glows with rosy charms, Or the sun slumbers in the ocean's arms: Of light divine be a rich portion lent To guide my soul, and favour my intend.”
Phillis Wheatley · Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773)
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“To him, as to other great teachers both philosophical and religious, when they looked upward, the world seemed to be the embodiment of error and evil.”
Plato · The Republic (Classical Greece · English translation 1888)
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“Anaxagoras, who had disappointed him in his hopes of learning about mind and nature, he shows a less kindly feeling, which is also the feeling of Plato in other passages (Laws).”
Plato · Apology (Classical Greece · English translation 1891)
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“Georgias”, in which the thesis is maintained, that “to suffer is better than to do evil;” and the art of rhetoric is described as only useful for the purpose of self-accusation.”
Plato · Apology (Classical Greece · English translation 1891)
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“I was speaking have a superhuman wisdom which I may fail to describe, because I have it not myself; and he who says that I have, speaks falsely, and is taking away my character.”
Plato · Apology (Classical Greece · English translation 1891)
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“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free;”
Rabindranath Tagore · Gitanjali, poem 35 (1912)
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“The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.”
Rabindranath Tagore · Gitanjali, poem 69 (1912)
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“I have had my invitation to this world’s festival, and thus my life has been blessed.”
Rabindranath Tagore · Gitanjali, poem 16 (1912)
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“The child who is decked with prince’s robes and who has jewelled chains round his neck loses all pleasure in his play; his dress hampers him at every step.”
Rabindranath Tagore · Gitanjali, poem 8 (1912)
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“Open thine eyes and see thy God is not before thee!”
Rabindranath Tagore · Gitanjali, poem 11 (1912)
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“And today when by chance I light upon them and see thy signature, I find they have lain scattered in the dust mixed with the memory of joys and sorrows of my trivial days forgotten.”
Rabindranath Tagore · Gitanjali (1912)
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“I have roamed from country to country keeping her in the core of my heart, and around her have risen and fallen the growth and decay of my life.”
Rabindranath Tagore · Gitanjali (1912)
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“I dream of a star, an island of light, where I shall be born and in the depth of its quickening leisure my life will ripen its works like the ricefield in the autumn sun.”
Rabindranath Tagore · Stray Birds (1916)
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“Author believes to be required in order to greater advancement in the investigation of Nature than has yet been made, with the reasons that have induced him to write.”
René Descartes · Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason (1637 · English translation 1850)
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“But I believed that I had already given sufficient time to languages, and likewise to the reading of the writings of the ancients, to their histories and fables.”
René Descartes · Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason (1637 · English translation 1850)
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“I gradually extricated myself from many errors powerful enough to darken our natural intelligence, and incapacitate us in great measure from listening to reason.”
René Descartes · Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason (1637 · English translation 1850)
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“And I was going to sea myself, to sea in a schooner, with a piping boatswain and pig-tailed singing seamen, to sea, bound for an unknown island, and to seek for buried treasure!”
Robert Louis Stevenson · Treasure Island (1883)
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“This last was a sharp-looking man who seemed angry with everything on board and was soon to tell us why, for we had hardly got down into the cabin when a sailor followed us.”
Robert Louis Stevenson · Treasure Island (1883)
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“I described) was to have full liberty and power about my house in the square; and to parry mishaps, I even called and made myself a familiar object, in my second character.”
Robert Louis Stevenson · Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
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“I once more prepared and drank the cup, once more suffered the pangs of dissolution, and came to myself once more with the character, the stature and the face of Henry Jekyll.”
Robert Louis Stevenson · Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
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“All about you was the light That dims the greying end of night; Desire was the unrisen sun, Joy the day not yet begun, With tree whispering to tree, Without wind, quietly.”
Rupert Brooke · The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke (1915)
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“Clear-visioned, though it break you; far apart From the dead best, the dear and old delight; Throw down your dreams of immortality, O faithful, O foolish lover!”
Rupert Brooke · The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke (1915)
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“Earth a lawn Spacious and full of sunlit dancing-places, And laughter, and music, and, among the flowers, The gay child-hearts of men, and the child-faces O heart, in the great dawn!”
Rupert Brooke · The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke (1915)
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“Or; -- "And feel, who have laid our groping hands away; And see, no longer blinded by our eyes," Or, more briefly, -- "In wise majestic melancholy train.”
Rupert Brooke · The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke (1915)
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“Their beauty might declare: A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware: Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed them unaware.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge · The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798)
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“They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, Nor spake, nor moved their eyes; It had been strange, even in a dream, To have seen those dead men rise.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge · The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798)
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“My hair shall braid thy temples like a crown Of sapphires, and my kiss upon thy brows Like cithar-music lull thee to repose, Till the sun yield thee homage of his light.”
Sarojini Naidu · The Golden Threshold (1905)
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“Therein I treasure the spice and scent Of rich and passionate memories blent Like odours of cinnamon, sandal and clove, Of song and sorrow and life and love.”
Sarojini Naidu · The Golden Threshold (1905)
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“It was in the early summer, the season of light nights, and it was as bright as day, although the sun was not yet up.”
Selma Lagerlöf · The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1906 · English translation 1907)
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“Karr kept him company as often as he could; but now it was no longer through pity, for a great friendship had sprung up between the two.”
Selma Lagerlöf · The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1906 · English translation 1907)
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“Karr looked at Grayskin and measured him with his eyes.”
Selma Lagerlöf · The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1906 · English translation 1907)
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“No, he had not; and then she looked up a dry caraway herb, that had kept all its tiny seeds intact.”
Selma Lagerlöf · The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1906 · English translation 1907)
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“One morning early, just as the first streak of sunlight made its appearance, Thumbietot awakened the eagle.”
Selma Lagerlöf · The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1906 · English translation 1907)
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“See, Sister Goldeye, what fine-looking geese have come to our island!”
Selma Lagerlöf · The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1906 · English translation 1907)
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“Toward evening the wind abated suddenly, and the tired travellers hoped that they would have an interval of easy flight before sundown.”
Selma Lagerlöf · The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1906 · English translation 1907)
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“Ardinburghs again tired of him, and offered freedom to two old slaves-Caesar, brother of Mau-mau Bett, and his wife Betsy-on condition that they should take care of James.”
Sojourner Truth · The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850)
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“Bristol, becoming interested in her new views and original opinions, requested as a favor that she would go to Hartford, to see and converse with friends of his there.”
Sojourner Truth · The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850)
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“It was a life that suited her well for the time-being as devoid of hardship or terror as it was of improvement; a need which had not yet become a want.”
Sojourner Truth · The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850)
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“John Ardinburgh, a grandson of the old Colonel; and he declared that 'Bomefree, who had ever been a kind and faithful slave, should now have a good funeral.”
Sojourner Truth · The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850)
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“One Sunday morning, in particular, she was told to go to the barn; on going there, she found her master with a bundle of rods, prepared in the embers, and bound together with cords.”
Sojourner Truth · The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850)
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“African Apes has been of slower growth; indeed, it is only within the last few years that the truthful story of the old English adventurer has been rendered fully intelligible.”
Thomas Henry Huxley · Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863)
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“Chimpanzee a name--"Enche-eko"--which is obviously identical with the "Engeko" of Battell; a discovery which has been confirmed by all later inquirers.”
Thomas Henry Huxley · Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863)
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“Monkey', an 'Ape', and a 'Man'," published by the Royal Society in 1699, is, indeed, a work of remarkable merit, and has, in some respects, served as a model to subsequent inquirers.”
Thomas Henry Huxley · Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863)
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“Orangs; and to make use of the perfectly reliable information respecting them as a sort of criterion of the probable truth or falsehood of assertions respecting the others.”
Thomas Henry Huxley · Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863)
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“They are gentle and affectionate in captivity--full of tricks and pettishness, like spoiled children, and yet not devoid of a certain conscience, as an anecdote, told by Mr.”
Thomas Henry Huxley · Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863)
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“The two first, by being hereditary, are independent of the people; wherefore in a constitutional sense they contribute nothing towards the freedom of the state.”
Thomas Paine · Common Sense (1776)
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“To talk of friendship with those in whom our reason forbids us to have faith, and our affections wounded through a thousand pores instruct us to detest, is madness and folly.”
Thomas Paine · Common Sense (1776)
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“Wherefore, her own interest leads her to suppress the growth of ours in every case which doth not promote her advantage, or in the least interferes with it.”
Thomas Paine · Common Sense (1776)
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“American Independence, and the treaty of alliance between France and America, which recognised the natural rights of man, and justified resistance to oppression.”
Thomas Paine · Rights of Man (1791)
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“Most Precious Rights of Man, every Citizen may speak, write, and publish freely, provided he is responsible for the abuse of this Liberty, in cases determined by the Law.”
Thomas Paine · Rights of Man (1791)
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“Political associations is the Preservation of the Natural and Imprescriptible Rights of Man; and these rights are Liberty, Property, Security, and Resistance of Oppression.”
Thomas Paine · Rights of Man (1791)
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“The furniture, trappings, and inventions are in motion to express the haunted mind, as in Griffith's Avenging Conscience, described pages 121 through 132.”
Vachel Lindsay · The Art of the Moving Picture (1915)
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“A horizontal ray of sunshine lightly touched the face of the sleeping Cosette, who lay with her mouth vaguely open, and had the air of an angel drinking in the light.”
Victor Hugo · Les Misérables (1862 · English translation 1887)
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“Sometimes, even, and this has been actually seen, fear turns to passion; fright may change into fury, as prudence does into rage; hence this wise saying: “The enraged moderates.”
Victor Hugo · Les Misérables (1862 · English translation 1887)
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“Candide, "I know this love, that sovereign of hearts, that soul of our souls; yet it never cost me more than a kiss and twenty kicks on the backside.”
Voltaire · Candide (1759)
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“Father Didrie, Superior of that House, conceived the tenderest friendship for me; he gave me the habit of the order, some years after I was sent to Rome.”
Voltaire · Candide (1759)
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“Koran (the reason for which changes is known to God) some unbelievers cry out, 'Thou hast forged those verses'; but they know not how to distinguish truth from falsehood.”
Voltaire · A Philosophical Dictionary (1764)
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“On the contrary, the Benedictine Ambrose Cajeta, in a voluminous work written for the purpose, has endeavored to trace the origin of the Jesuits to the order of St.”
Voltaire · A Philosophical Dictionary (1764)
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“There is, in truth, no better way of laying out money, nor of encouraging propagation, but I do not believe that this royal munificence is true; at least I have never witnessed it.”
Voltaire · A Philosophical Dictionary (1764)
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“Virgil must be pardoned for having faith in this nonsense, and speaking of it seriously in his eighth eclogue: Carmina de cœlo possunt de duecere lunam.”
Voltaire · A Philosophical Dictionary (1764)
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“Veil, raising it that you may view faintly its deeper recesses,—the meaning of its religion, the passion of its human sorrow, and the struggle of its greater souls.”
W. E. B. Du Bois · The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
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“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
Walt Whitman · Song of Myself, Leaves of Grass (19th century)
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“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
Walt Whitman · Song of Myself, Leaves of Grass (19th century)
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Walt Whitman · Miracles, Leaves of Grass (19th century)
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Walt Whitman · Song of Myself, Leaves of Grass (19th century)
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“Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.”
Walt Whitman · Song of Myself, Leaves of Grass (19th century)
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Walt Whitman · To the States, Leaves of Grass (19th century)
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“I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul,”
Walt Whitman · Song of Myself, Leaves of Grass (19th century)
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“If a player has become so accustomed to the two-hand method as to make him uncomfortable and inaccurate if forced to the one-hand way, it is hardly advisable to make the change.”
Walter Camp · American Football (1893)
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“The feature of the American game in distinction from the English is, just as it was within a year from the time of the adoption of the sport, the outlet of the scrimmage.”
Walter Camp · American Football (1893)
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“The second result has been to perfect a system of flanking a runner by companions who form almost an impassable barrier at times to the would-be tacklers.”
Walter Camp · American Football (1893)
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“To acquire the habit of taking a pass easily, a half-back should spend a little time every day off the field in practising taking a sharp pass when on the run.”
Walter Camp · American Football (1893)
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“When his own side have the ball the guard must block sharply until the quarter has time for receiving the ball, and, at any rate, beginning the motion of the pass.”
Walter Camp · American Football (1893)
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“Christians, compromised with my conscience, by laying the sin of my own delinquency at another person’s threshold, I occupied myself by making observations on my neighbors.”
Washington Irving · The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819)
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“What is it to us whether these stories be true or false, so long as we can persuade ourselves into the belief of them and enjoy all the charm of the reality?”
Washington Irving · The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819)
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“As I look back upon it, across the years, I feel something of the same thrill that stirred my boyish blood that day and opened a door through which I looked into a new world.”
William H. Edwards · Football Days (1916)
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“Athletics had for me a greater attraction than ever before, and from that day I applied myself with increased enthusiasm to the work of the gymnasium.”
William H. Edwards · Football Days (1916)
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“His action was easy all over and seemed to be in thorough control from a well-balanced head, from which looked a pair of exceptionally keen, piercing, expressive brown eyes.”
William H. Edwards · Football Days (1916)
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“I limit myself to pointing out the principal consideration which proves clearly that this pretended direct contemplation of the mind by itself is a pure illusion.”
William James · The Principles of Psychology (1890)
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“This he may, upon occasion, in the light of his own unquestioned knowledge, pronounce true or false, and trace the reasons by which it has become one or the other.”
William James · The Principles of Psychology (1890)
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“Christian warmth of sentiment, as in the often quoted passage of Marcus Aurelius:— “Everything harmonizes with me which is harmonious to thee, O Universe.”
William James · The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
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“His conceptions tend to pass immediately into belief and action; and when he gets a new idea, he has no rest till he proclaims it, or in some way “works it off.”
William James · The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
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“I felt unwilling to go to sleep myself, I was so happy, fearing I should lose it—thinking within myself ‘My willing soul would stay In such a frame as this.”
William James · The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
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“I might have no soul to lose; and when I have seen birds flying over my head, have often thought within myself, Oh, that I could fly away from my danger and distress!”
William James · The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
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“The mind‐cure teachings that I had been listening to all the winter thereupon came into my mind, and I thought that here was an opportunity to test myself.”
William James · The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
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“See you now; Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth; And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses, and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out.”
William Shakespeare · Hamlet (1600)
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“So, gentlemen, With all my love I do commend me to you; And what so poor a man as Hamlet is May do t’express his love and friending to you, God willing, shall not lack.”
William Shakespeare · Hamlet (1600)
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“To desperation turn my trust and hope, An anchor’s cheer in prison be my scope, Each opposite that blanks the face of joy, Meet what I would have well, and it destroy!”
William Shakespeare · Hamlet (1600)
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“A third, nor red nor white, had stol’n of both, And to his robbery had annex’d thy breath; But, for his theft, in pride of all his growth A vengeful canker eat him up to death.”
William Shakespeare · Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609)
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“And I by this will be a gainer too; For bending all my loving thoughts on thee, The injuries that to myself I do, Doing thee vantage, double-vantage me.”
William Shakespeare · Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609)
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“May still seem love to me, though alter’d new; Thy looks with me, thy heart in other place: For there can live no hatred in thine eye, Therefore in that I cannot know thy change.”
William Shakespeare · Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609)
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“Rise, resty Muse, my love’s sweet face survey, If Time have any wrinkle graven there; If any, be a satire to decay, And make time’s spoils despised every where.”
William Shakespeare · Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609)
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“Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty’s best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express’d Even such a beauty as you master now.”
William Shakespeare · Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609)
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“Hear all, all see, And like her most whose merit most shall be: Which, on more view of many, mine, being one, May stand in number, though in reckoning none.”
William Shakespeare · Romeo and Juliet (c. 1597)
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“My child is yet a stranger in the world, She hath not seen the change of fourteen years; Let two more summers wither in their pride Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.”
William Shakespeare · Romeo and Juliet (c. 1597)
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“Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie, And young affection gapes to be his heir; That fair for which love groan’d for and would die, With tender Juliet match’d, is now not fair.”
William Shakespeare · Romeo and Juliet (c. 1597)
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“So far from sounding and discovery, As is the bud bit with an envious worm Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.”
William Shakespeare · Romeo and Juliet (c. 1597)
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“Brutus is Noble, Wise, Valiant, and Honest; Caesar was Mighty, Bold, Royall, and Louing: Say, I loue Brutus, and I honour him; Say, I fear'd Caesar, honour'd him, and lou'd him.”
William Shakespeare · Julius Caesar (c. 1599)
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“Elbowes, and besmeare our Swords: Then walke we forth, euen to the Market place, And wauing our red Weapons o're our heads, Let's all cry Peace, Freedome, and Liberty Cassi.”
William Shakespeare · Julius Caesar (c. 1599)
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“I haue not from your eyes, that gentlenesse And shew of Loue, as I was wont to haue: You beare too stubborne, and too strange a hand Ouer your Friend, that loues you Bru.”
William Shakespeare · Julius Caesar (c. 1599)
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“Traine; Calphurnia's Cheeke is pale, and Cicero Lookes with such Ferret, and such fiery eyes As we haue seene him in the Capitoll Being crost in Conference, by some Senators Cassi.”
William Shakespeare · Julius Caesar (c. 1599)
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“You shall confesse, that you are both deceiu'd: Heere, as I point my Sword, the Sunne arises, Which is a great way growing on the South, Weighing the youthfull Season of the yeare.”
William Shakespeare · Julius Caesar (c. 1599)
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“Beatrice; Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes, Misprising what they look on, and her wit Values itself so highly, that to her All matter else seems weak.”
William Shakespeare · Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1599)
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“Because I will not do them the wrong to mistrust any, I will do myself the right to trust none; and the fine is,—for the which I may go the finer,—I will live a bachelor.”
William Shakespeare · Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1599)
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“Do you question me, as an honest man should do, for my simple true judgment; or would you have me speak after my custom, as being a professed tyrant to their sex?”
William Shakespeare · Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1599)
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“there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”
William Shakespeare · Hamlet (c. 1600)
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“I profess Myself an enemy to all other joys Which the most precious square of sense possesses, And find I am alone felicitate In your dear highness’ love.”
William Shakespeare · King Lear (c. 1606)
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“Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide: in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked ’twixt son and father.”
William Shakespeare · King Lear (c. 1606)
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“To match you where I hate; therefore beseech you T’avert your liking a more worthier way Than on a wretch whom nature is asham’d Almost t’acknowledge hers.”
William Shakespeare · King Lear (c. 1606)
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“But ’tis strange: And oftentimes to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths; Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s In deepest consequence.”
William Shakespeare · Macbeth (c. 1606)
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“If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow, and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favours nor your hate.”
William Shakespeare · Macbeth (c. 1606)
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“Mine eyes are made the fools o’ the other senses, Or else worth all the rest: I see thee still; And on thy blade and dudgeon, gouts of blood, Which was not so before.”
William Shakespeare · Macbeth (c. 1606)
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“The rest is labour, which is not us’d for you: I’ll be myself the harbinger, and make joyful The hearing of my wife with your approach; So, humbly take my leave.”
William Shakespeare · Macbeth (c. 1606)
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“Though thou didst learn, had that in ’t which good natures Could not abide to be with; therefore wast thou Deservedly confin’d into this rock, Who hadst deserv’d more than a prison.”
William Shakespeare · The Tempest (c. 1611)
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“You were kneel’d to, and importun’d otherwise By all of us; and the fair soul herself Weigh’d between loathness and obedience at Which end o’ th’ beam should bow.”
William Shakespeare · The Tempest (c. 1611)
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“His Grandsire that age more than thirty times told; There are ninety good seasons of fair and foul weather 15 Between them, and both go a-pilfering together.”
William Wordsworth · The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth (1800)
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“Some quaint odd plaything of elaborate skill, So that, I guess, the linnet and the thrush, And other little builders who dwell here, Had wondered at the work.”
William Wordsworth · The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth (1800)
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“The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb 135 Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.”
William Wordsworth · The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth (1800)
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“Iktomi stopped drumming with his horn ladle, and looking upward into the muskrat's face, he said: “My friend, let us run a race to see who shall win this pot of fish.”
Zitkala-Sa · Old Indian Legends (1901)
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“On the day after my father's death, having led my mother to the camp of the medicineman, I gave myself up to those who were searching for the murderer of the paleface.”
Zitkala-Sa · American Indian Stories (1921)
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