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The three great elements of modern civilisation, Gunpowder, Printing and the Protestant Religion.

Thomas Carlyle

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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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Near this spot
Are deposited the Remains of one
Who possessed Beauty without Vanity,
Strength without Insolence,
Courage without Ferocity,
And all the Virtues of Man without his Vices.

Lord Byron

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

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There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.

Francis Drake

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Drake, Francis. Dispatch to Francis Walsingham. 17 May 1587, Francis Drake's ship, Iberian coasts between Lisbon and Cape St. Vincent. Dispatch.

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

Katherine Hankey

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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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I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade

W.H. Auden

September 1,1939

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Auden, W. H. "September 1, 1939." Another Time. Faber and Faber/Random House, 1940. Originally published in The New Republic, 18 Oct. 1939.

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But, friend, to me
He is all fault who hath no fault at all:
For who loves me must have a touch of earth.

Alfred Tennyson

Idylls of the King

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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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Creatures of a day. What is someone? What is no one? Man is the dream of a shadow. But when the brilliance given by Zeus comes, a shining light is on man, and a gentle lifetime.

Pindar

Pythian Odes

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Pindar. Pythian Odes. c. 474, pythian 8.

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Pindar. The Complete Odes, translated by Anthony Verity. Oxford University Press, 2008, pythian 8.

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We are continually dying; I while I am writing these words, you while you are reading them, others when they hear them or fail to hear them. I shall be dying when you read this, you die while I write, we both are dying, we all are dying, we are dying forever.

Petrarch

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Petrarch. Letter to Philippe, Biship of Cavaillon. c. 1360.

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Petrarch. "To Philippe, Bishop of Cavaillon, concerning the incredible flight of time." Letters of Familiar Matters (Rerum Familiarum Libri), translated by Aldo Bernardo. Vol. 3, Italica Press, 2008.

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History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending

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Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 2.

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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
Thus unlamented let me die;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lie.

Alexander Pope

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Pope, Alexander. "Ode on Solitude." 1700?

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Pope, Alexander. "Ode on Solitude." Essay on Man & Other Poems. Dover, 1994.

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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.

Hannah Arendt

The New Yorker

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Arendt, Hannah. "Civil Disobedience." Crises of the Republic. Vintage, 1972. Originally published as "Reflections on Civil Disobedience" by The New Yorker, 12 Sept. 1970.

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I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right.

Sherlock Holmes

A Study in Scarlet

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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.

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Nature has left this Tincture in the Blood,
That all Men wou'd be Tyrants if they cou'd.

Daniel Defoe

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Defoe, Daniel. The History of the Kentish Petition. London, 1701.

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Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

Samuel Pepys

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Pepys, Samuel. Diary entry. 9 Nov. 1665.

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Pepys, Samuel. "Diary entry, 9 Nov. 1665." The Diary of Samuel Pepys. Everyman's Library, 2018.

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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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Man, being condemned to be free carries the weight of the whole world on his shoulders; he is responsible for the world and himself as a way of being.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Being and Nothingness

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Sartre, Jean Paul. Le etre et le neant: Essai d'ontologie phenomenologique [Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology]. Librairie Gallimard, 1943, pt. 4, ch. 1.

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Sartre, Jean Paul. Being and Nothingness, translated by Sarah Richmond. Washington Square Press, 2021, pt. 4, ch. 1.

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There is a very pretty Collection of Prints in the next Room, Madam, will you give me leave to explain them to you?

Susanna Centlivre

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Centlivre, Susannah. The Man's Bewitch'd; or, The Devil to do about Her. Performed by John Bowman and John Mills and Benjamin Husband and Robert Wilks. 12 Dec. 1709, Queen's Theatre, Haymarket, London, England, UK, act 3.

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O liberty! O liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name!

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Madame Roland. Last words before her execution by guillotine. 8 Nov. 1793, Paris, France.

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Virtue is choked with foul ambition.

William Shakespeare

Henry VI, Part 2

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Shakespeare, William. Henry the Sixth, Part 2. London: Thomas Millington, 1594, act 3, sc. 1.

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