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Carlyle, Thomas. "State of German Literature." Edinburgh Review, Oct. 1827.

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Carlyle, Thomas. "State of German Literature." The Works of Thomas Carlyle, edited by Henry Duff Traill. Vol. 26, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Lord Byron. "Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog." 1808.

Tell me the old, old story
Of unseen things above,
Of Jesus and his glory,
Of Jesus and his love.

Katherine Hankey

Tell Me the Old, Old Story

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Hankey, Kate. Tell me the old, old story. Composed by William Hovard Doane. c. 1867.

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Tennyson, Alfred. "Lancelot and Elaine." Idylls of the King. London: Edward Moxon, 1859, I. 131-133.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "Lancelot and Elaine." Idylls of the King, edited by J. M. Gray. Penguin Classics, 1989, I. 131-133.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "A Study in Scarlet." Beeton's Christmas Annual. London: Ward Lock & Co., 1887.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2012, pt. 1, ch. 1.

You have not converted a man, because you have silenced him.

John Morley

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Morley, John. On Compromise. London: Chapman and Hall, 1874, ch. 5.

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Edwards, Jonathan. "Procrastination or The Sin and Folly of Depending on Future Time." c. 1834. Sermon.

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Tennyson, Alfred. "Ulysses." Poems. Vol. 2, London: Edward Moxon, 1842, I. 22.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "Ulysses." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 22.

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Wordsworth, William. Poems, in Two Volumes. Vol. 2, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807.

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Wordsworth, William. "I wandered lonely as a cloud." William Wordsworth: The Major Works including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Southey, Robert. Madoc. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1805, pt. 1.

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Sitting Bull. Speech to Major Brotherton. 19 or 20 July 1881, Fort Buford, ND, USA.

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Sitting Bull. "What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken?" Great Speeches by Native Americans, edited by Bob Blaisdell. Dover Publications, 2000.

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

Samuel Smiles

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Smiles, Samuel. Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct. London: John Murray, 1859, ch. 8.

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Smiles, Samuel. Self-Help, edited by Peter W. Sinnema. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 8.

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Lord Byron. Letter To Thomas Moore. 28 Oct. 1815.

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Lord Byron. Byron's Letters and Journals: A New Selection, edited by Richard Lansdown. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 5.

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Monroe, James. Message to Congress about The Monroe Doctrine. Seventh annual message to Congress. 2 Dec. 1823, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Craik, Dinah Mulock. "Magnus and Morna." Thirty Years: Being Poems, New and Old. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1881, sc. 2.

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Adams, John. Letter to Thomas Jefferson. 15 July 1817.

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Adams, John. "Adams to Jefferson - Quincy, July 15, 1817." The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams, edited by Lester J. Cappon. University of North Carolina Press, 1988.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter: A Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1850, ch. 4.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter, edited by Brian Harding. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 4.

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

Julia Margaret Cameron

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Cameron, Julia Margaret and Violet Hamilton. Annals of My Glass House: Photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron. University of Washington Press, 1997.

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Nerval, Gerard De. Vers Dores. c. 1843, l. 8.

In this world I would rather live two days like a tiger, than two hundred years like a sheep.

Tipu Sultan

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Sultan, Tipu. Quoted in A View of the Origin and Conduct of the War with Tippoo Sultan, written by Alexander Beatson. W. Bulmer and Co., 1800, ch. 10.