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He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars;
General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer:
For art and science cannot exist but in the minutely organized particulars.

William Blake

Jerusalem

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Topic

Good works Serving others Theory vs. practice

Author

William Blake

Source

Jerusalem

Language

English

Time

1820 1820s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Blake, William. Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion. London, c. 1820, ch. 3, plate 55, I. 60.

Current Citation

Blake, William. "Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion." The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. University of California Press, 2008, ch. 3, plate 55, I. 60.

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

Benjamin Spock

The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care

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Topic

Trusting oneself

Author

Benjamin Spock

Source

The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care

Genre

Psychological literature

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Spock, Benjamin. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946, ch. 1.

Youth's the season made for joys,
Love is then our duty.

John Gay

The Beggar's Opera

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Topic

Purpose of youth Youth

Speaker

Macheath

Author

John Gay

Source

The Beggar's Opera

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1728 1720s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Gay, John. The Beggar's Opera. 1728, Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 1, air 22.

Current Citation

Gay, John. "The Beggar's Opera." The Beggar's Opera and Polly, edited by Hal Gladfelder. Oxford University Press, 2013, act 2, sc. 1, air 22.

Of my two "handicaps," being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.

Shirley Chisholm

Unbought and Unbossed

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Topic

Intersectionality Oppression of women

Author

Shirley Chisholm

Source

Unbought and Unbossed

Language

English

Time

1970 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Chisholm, Shirley. Unbought and Unbossed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1970, introduction.

There are two perfumes to a book. If a book is new it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better. It smells like ancient Egypt.

Ray Bradbury

Quoted in Paris Review

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Topic

Books Smells Egypt

Speaker

Ray Bradbury

Source

Art of Fiction interview Paris Review

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

2010 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Bradbury, Ray. "Ray Bradbury, The Art of Fiction No. 203." Interviewed by Sam Weller. Paris Review, Spring 2010.

The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Thomas Carlyle

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Topic

Reaching one's potential

Author

Thomas Carlyle

Language

English

Time

1827 1820s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. "Jean Paul Friedrich Richter." The Edinburgh Review, June 1827.

Current Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. "Jean Paul Friedrich Richter." The Works of Thomas Carlyle, edited by Henry Duff Traill. Vol. 26, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

And sigh that one thing only has been lent
To youth and age in common—discontent.

Matthew Arnold

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Topic

Discontent Youth vs. old age The human condition

Author

Matthew Arnold

Source

Youth's Agitations

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1852 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Arnold, Matthew, [published as A]. "Sonnet." Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems. London: B. Fellowes, 1852, l. 13.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,
Or close the wall up with our English dead!

William Shakespeare

Henry V

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Topic

Battle

Speaker

King Henry V

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Henry V

Medium

Play

Genre

History (play)

Language

English

Time

1599 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Henry V. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, c. 1599, The Curtain, Shoreditch, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Henry the Fifth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 1.

Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

Revelation 22:20

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Source

Revelation The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

96 90s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Revelation 22:20).

Let there be light! said Liberty,
And like sunrise from the sea,
Athens arose!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Topic

Athens

Author

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Source

Hellas

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1822 1820s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Hellas: A Lyrical Drama. London: Charles and James Ollier, 1822, I. 682.

Current Citation

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Hellas." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 682.

Draw lines, young man, many lines, from memory or from nature; it is in this way that you will become a good artist.

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

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Topic

Artistic development Practice Art

Speaker

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Source

Degas

Statement Type

Advice

Language

French

Time

1855 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominque. Quoted in Degas, written by Keith Roberts. Phaidon Press, 1982, p. 7.

In no way, shape, or form do I feel any feelings of intimacy towards you in any way whatsoever.

Step Brothers

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Topic

Setting boundaries

Speaker

Denise

Actor

Andrea Savage

Source

Step Brothers

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Comedy

Language

English

Time

2008 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Step Brothers. Directed by Adam McKay, Columbia Pictures/Relativity Media/The Apatow Company/Mosaic Media Group/Gary Sanchez Productions, 2008.

The cure for the ills of Democracy is more Democracy.

Jane Addams

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Topic

Democracy Political theory Politics

Author

Jane Addams

Source

Democracy and Social Ethics

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1902 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Addams, Jane. Democracy and Social Ethics. The Macmillan Company, 1902, introduction.

Best advice I ever got was an old friend mine, a black friend, who said you have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.

James Baldwin

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Topic

Following your heart Being true to oneself Authenticity Life

Speaker

James Baldwin

Source

Village Voice

Medium

Interview Newspaper

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1984 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Baldwin, James. Quoted in "Go the Way Your Blood Beats." Interviewed by Richard Goldstein. Village Voice, 26 June 1984.

Current Citation

Baldwin, James. "Go the Way Your Blood Beats." James Baldwin: The Last Interview and Other Interviews. Melville House, 2014.

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Alexander Pope

An Essay on Man

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Topic

Simple pleasures Children

Author

Alexander Pope

Source

An Essay on Man

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1733 1730s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Man." London: J. Wilford, 1733, I. ep. 2, 275-276.

Current Citation

Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Man." The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, ep. 2, l. 275-276.

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image.

Joan Didion

The White Album

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Topic

Rootedness Place

Author

Joan Didion

Source

In the Islands The White Album

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1979 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Didion, Joan. "In the Islands." The White Album. Simon & Schuster, 1979.

It always helps to have people we love beside us when we have to do difficult things in life.

Fred Rogers

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Topic

Support from others Support

Author

Fred Rogers

Source

The World According to Mister Rogers

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 0

Citation

Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 57.

Light is a delicate thing.

Georges Braque

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Topic

Nature of light Light Art

Speaker

Georges Braque

Source

The Artist in His Studio

Medium

Interview

Language

French

Time

20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Liberman, Alexander. The Artist in His Studio. Viking Press, 1960, ch. 3.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

Horace Walpole

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Topic

The world Reason and emotion

Author

Horace Walpole

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1776 1770s 18th century

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Walpole, Horace. Letter to Anne. 16 Aug. 1776.

Current Citation

Walpole, Horace. "Letter to Anne." Horace Walpole's Correspondence, edited by Wilmarth S. Lewis, A. Dayle Wallace, and Edwine M. Martz. Vol. 32, Yale University Press, 1965.

Error is a hardy plant: it flourisheth in every soil.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Of Truth in Things False

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Topic

Mistakes

Author

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Source

Of Truth in Things False

Language

English

Time

1838 1830s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Tupper, Martin Farquhar. "Of Truth in Things False." Proverbial Philosophy. London: Joseph Rickerby, 1838.