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And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden.

Genesis 2:8

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Garden of Eden Gardens

Source

Genesis The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

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. (Genesis 2:8).

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There is nothing—absolute nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows

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Boats Killing time Hobbies

Speaker

Rat

Author

Kenneth Grahame

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The Wind in the Willows

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Novel

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English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

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Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen, 1908, ch. 1.

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Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Barnes & Noble, 2013, ch. 1.

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Ezra Pound

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Cities Rural vs. urban

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Ezra Pound

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1913 1910s 20th century

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Pound, Ezra. Letter to Harriet Monroe. 7 Nov. 1913.

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What female heart can gold despise?
What cat's averse to fish?

Thomas Gray

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Nature of women Jewelry

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Thomas Gray

Source

Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1748 1740s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Gray, Thomas. "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes." Collection of Poems by Several Hands. Vol. 2, London, 1748. Originally sent in a letter to Horace Walpole, 1 Mar. 1747.

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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and a little to be enjoyed.

Samuel Johnson

The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale

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Challenges of life Life The human condition

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Imlac

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Samuel Johnson

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The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale

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Novel

Language

English

Time

1759 1750s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Johnson, Samuel. The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale. London: R. and J. Dodsley/W. Johnston, 1759, ch. 11.

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Johnson, Samuel. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. Penguin Classics, 2007, ch. 11.

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All things are artificiall, for nature is the Art of God.

Sir Thomas Browne

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Nature Creation

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Sir Thomas Browne

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Religio Medici

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Autobiography and memoir Religious literature

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English

Time

1643 1640s 17th century

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. Religio Medici. London, 1643, pt. 1, sect. 16.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Religio Medici (1643)." Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, edited by Kevin Killeen. Oxford University Press, 2018, pt. 1, sect. 16.

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Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

Benjamin Peirce

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Mathematics Science

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Benjamin Peirce

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Linear Associative Algebra

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Academic journal

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1870 1870s 19th century

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Peirce, Benjamin. Linear Associative Algebra. Van Nostrand, 1882, sect. 1.

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Life is not a thing of knowing only—nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion.

Learned Hand

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Reason and emotion Knowledge Emotions

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Learned Hand

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Speeches of Learned Hand

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English

Time

1893 1890s 19th century

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Hand, Learned. "Class-Day Oration." Commencement. 23 June 1893, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.

Blade Runner

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Living in fear Fear

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Roy Batty

Actor

Rutger Hauer

Source

Blade Runner

Medium

Film

Genre

Dystopian (film) Science fiction (film) Dystopian Science fiction

Language

English

Time

1982 1980s 20th century

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Blade Runner. Directed by Ridley Scott, The Ladd Company/Blade Runner Partnership/Shaw Brothers Studio, 1982.

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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

Of Human Bondage

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Money

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Monsieur Foinet

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W. Somerset Maugham

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Of Human Bondage

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

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Maugham, William Somerset. Of Human Bondage. George H. Doran Company, 1915, ch. 51.

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Maugham, William Somerset. Of Human Bondage. Signet, 2007, ch. 51.

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Women and wine should life employ.
Is there ought else on earth desirous?

John Gay

The Beggar's Opera

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Women Wine Alcohol

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Matt of the Mint

Author

John Gay

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The Beggar's Opera

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1728 1720s 18th century

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Gay, John. The Beggar's Opera. 1728, Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 1, air 19.

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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 19.

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Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.

William Lloyd Garrison

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Natural law Human rights

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William Lloyd Garrison

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Language

English

Time

1853 1850s 19th century

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Garrison, William Lloyd. Speech at a Woman's Rights Convention. Woman's Rights Convention. 6 Sept. 1853, Broadway Tabernacle, New York City, NY, USA.

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But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.

Viktor Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning

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Crying Courage Suffering

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Viktor Frankl

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Man's Search for Meaning

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

German

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Frankl, Victor. …trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager [Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy]. Verlag für Jugend und Volk, 1946.

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Frankl, Victor. Man's Search for Meaning. Beacon Press, 2006.

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Think nothing done while aught remains to do.

Samuel Rogers

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Finishing a task

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Samuel Rogers

Source

Human Life

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1819 1810s 19th century

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Rogers, Samuel. Human Life. London: John Murray, 1819, I. 49.

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No nation can longer be a fortress, lone and strong and safe. And any people, seeking such shelter for themselves, can now build only their own prison.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Second Inaugural Address of Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Isolationism International politics Political theory

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Second Inaugural Address of Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1957 1950s 20th century

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. "Second Inaugural Address." 21 Jan. 1957, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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That's the part of it I always liked. He adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he adjusted himself to them not falling.

Dashiell Hammett

Black Mask

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Adaptability

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Sam Spade

Author

Dashiell Hammett

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The Maltese Falcon Black Mask

Medium

Novel Magazine

Genre

Detective fiction

Language

English

Time

1930 1930s 20th century

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Hammett, Dashiell. "The Maltese Falcon." Black Mask, Sept. 1929 - Jan. 1930. Serial.

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Hammett, Dashiell. "The Maltese Falcon." The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest. Everyman's Library, 2000, ch. 7.

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So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Diversity of religion Kindness

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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The World's Need

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Poem

Language

English

Time

1896 1890s 19th century

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Wilcox, Ella. "The World's Need." Custer, and Other Poems. W. B. Conkey Company, 1896, I. 1.

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A man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

William Faulkner

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Alcohol Stages of life

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William Faulkner

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English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Faulkner, William. Quoted in William Faulkner of Oxford, written and edited by James M. Webb and A. Wigfall Green. Louisiana State University Press, 1965.

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It is by crawling on the face of it that one learns a country.

Evelyn Waugh

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Travel

Author

Evelyn Waugh

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Ninety-two Days

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1934 1930s 20th century

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Waugh, Evelyn. Ninety-two Days. Duckworth, 1934, ch. 8.

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One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.

George Herbert

Jacula Prudentum

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Sleep

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George Herbert

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Jacula Prudentum

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Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1633 1630s 17th century

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Herbert, George. Jacula Prudentum, or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Microform. London: Humphrey Blunden, 1640.

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Herbert, George. "Outlandish Proverbs." Herbert: The Complete English Works, edited by Ann Pasternak Slater. Everyman's Library, 1995, no. 875.

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