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Love is holy because it is like grace-the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Marilynne Robinson

Gilead

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Nature of love Love

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Marilynne Robinson

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Gilead

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

2004 2000s 21st century

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Robinson, Marilynne. Gilead. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.

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There's nothing of so infinite vexation
As man's own thoughts.

John Webster

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Inner turmoil Inner life

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Flamineo

Author

John Webster

Source

The White Devil

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1612 1610s 17th century

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Webster, John. The White Divel; or, The Tragedy of Paulo Giordano Ursini, Duke of Brachiano. With The Life and Death of Vittoria Corombona the famous Venetian Curtizan. 1612, Red Bull Theatre, Clerkenwell, London, England, UK, act 5, sc. 6.

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Webster, John. "The White Devil." The Duchess of Malfi, The White Devil, The Broken Heart and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, edited by Jane Kingsley-Smith. Penguin Classics, 2015, act 5, sc. 6.

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Smoking... Kills you, and if you are killed, you have lost a very important part of your life.

Brooke Shields

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Smoking Nature of death

Speaker

Brooke Shields

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Congressional hearing

Language

English

Time

1981 1980s 20th century

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Shields, Brooke. Testimony at House of Representatives hearings on cigarette advertising. House of Representatives meeting. 25 June 1981, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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What is the city but the people?

William Shakespeare

Coriolanus

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Cities

Speaker

Sicinius Velutus

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Coriolanus

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Shakespeare, William. "Coriolanus." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 3, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "Coriolanus." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 5.

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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.

Saki

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White lies

Author

Saki

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Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1924 1920s 20th century

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Saki. "Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business." The Square Egg. John Lane, 1924.

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Saki. "Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business." The Complete Saki. Penguin Books, 1998.

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For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.

Jesus

Matthew 18:20

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The Church

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Jesus

Source

Gospel of Matthew The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

60 60s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Matthew 18:20).

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If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same.

Rudyard Kipling

If

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Equanimity

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Rudyard Kipling

Source

If

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1910 1910s 20th century

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Kipling, Rudyard. "If—". Rewards and Fairies. Macmillan and Co., 1910, st. 2.

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Kipling, Rudyard. "If—". Rudyard Kipling: Stories and Poems, edited by Daniel Karlin. Oxford University Press, 2015, st. 2.

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We talked into the night. The kind of talk that seemed important until you discover girls.

Stand By Me

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Richard Dreyfuss

Source

Stand By Me

Medium

Film

Genre

Coming of age (film) Coming of age

Language

English

Time

1986 1980s 20th century

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Stand By Me. Directed by Rob Reiner, Act III Productions, 1986.

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While the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.

Flannery O'Connor

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American South

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Flannery O'Connor

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Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

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O'Connor, Flannery. "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction." Dorothy Lamar Blount Lecture Series. 28 Oct. 1960, Wesleyan College, Macon, GA, USA.

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The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one.

F.W. Bourdillon

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Stars The sun Light Night and day

Author

F.W. Bourdillon

Source

Light

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1878 1870s 19th century

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Bourdillon, Francis William. "Light." Among the Flowers and Other Poems. Marcus Ward & Co., 1878.

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The noblest conquest man has ever made.

Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon

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On horses.

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Horses Man and animals

Author

Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon

Source

L'Histoire Naturelle

Language

French

Time

1753 1750s 18th century

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Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc. "Le Cheval [The Horse]." Histoire Naturelle generale et particuliere, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi [Natural History, General and Particular, with a Description of the King's Cabinet]. Vol. 4, c. 1753.

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A big hard-boiled city with no more personality than a paper cup.

Raymond Chandler

On Los Angeles.

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Los Angeles Cities

Speaker

Philip Marlowe

Author

Raymond Chandler

Source

The Little Sister

Medium

Novel

Genre

Detective fiction

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1949 1940s 20th century

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Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. Hamish Hamilton/Houghton Mifflin, 1949, ch. 26.

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We live and learn, but not the wiser grow.

John Pomfret

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Reason

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Life lessons School of hard knocks Acquiring wisdom

Author

John Pomfret

Source

Reason

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1700 1700s 18th century

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Pomfret, John. Reason. London: J. Nutt, c. 1700.

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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song.

Louis Armstrong

Quoted in The New York Times

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Music

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Louis Armstrong

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The New York Times

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Obituary Newspaper

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English

Time

20th century

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Armstrong, Louis. Quoted in "Louis Armstrong, Jazz Trumpeter and Singer, Dies." Written by Alvin Krebs. The New York Times, 7 July 1971.

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Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

God

Exodus 20:3

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Monotheism Idolatry The Ten Commandments

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God

Source

Exodus The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Orders and commands

Language

Hebrew

Time

1405 BC 1400s BC 15th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Exodus 20:3).

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We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favoured heroes attain—not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

C.S. Lewis

The Screwtape Letters

On people and their relationship to time.

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The future Nature of time Time The human condition

Author

C.S. Lewis

Source

The Screwtape Letters

Medium

Novel

Genre

Religious literature

Language

English

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

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Lewis, C.S. The Screwtape Letters. Geoffrey Bles, 1942, no. 25.

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Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.

Jesus

John 8:32

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Finding the truth Truth Freedom

Speaker

Jesus

Source

Gospel of John The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

90 90s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible, New International Version. International Bible Society, 1978. (John 8:32).

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Procrastination is the thief of time.

Edward Young

Night Thoughts

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Procrastination Lost time Time

Author

Edward Young

Source

Night Thoughts

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Poem

Language

English

Time

1742 1740s 18th century

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Young, Edward. The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality. London: R. Dodsley, 1742, Night 1, I. 393.

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Young, Edward. Edward Young: Night Thoughts, edited by Stephen Cornford. Cambridge University Press, 2008, Night 1, I. 393.

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He that plants trees loves others beside himself.

Thomas Fuller (physician)

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Loving others Empathy Trees Man and nature

Author

Thomas Fuller (physician)

Source

Gnomologia

Language

English

Time

1732 1730s 18th century

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Fuller, Thomas. Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs, Wise Sentences, And Witty Sayings. London: B. Barker, 1732, no. 2248.

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The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

Thornton Wilder

The Bridge on San Luis Rey

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Unrequited love

Author

Thornton Wilder

Source

The Bridge on San Luis Rey

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

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Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, 1927.

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Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Vintage, 2023.

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