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We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

Epictetus

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Topic

Thoughts Inner turmoil

Author

Epictetus

Source

The Enchiridion

Language

Greek

Time

125 120s 2nd century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Original Citation

Epictetus. Ἐγχειρίδιον Ἐπικτήτου, Enkheirídion Epiktḗtou [Enchiridion of Epictetus]. c. 125 CE, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Epictetus. Enchiridion, translated by George Long. Dover Publications, 2004, ch. 5.

Love is to me that you are the knife which I turn within myself.

Franz Kafka

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Topic

Dangers of love Love

Author

Franz Kafka

Source

Letters of Franz Kafka

Medium

Letter

Language

German

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Kafka, Franz. Letter to Milena Jesenská. 14 Sept. 1920.

Current Citation

Kafka, Franz. "Letter to Milena Jesenská, 14 Sept. 1920." Letters to Milena, translated by Philip Boehm. Schocken, 2015.

Debt is the prolific mother of folly and of crime.

Benjamin Disraeli

Henrietta Temple

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Topic

Debt

Author

Benjamin Disraeli

Source

Henrietta Temple

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

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Citation

Disraeli, Benjamin. Henrietta Temple. London: Henry Colburn, 1837, bk. 2, ch. 1.

Television. That's where movies go when they die.

Bob Hope

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Topic

TV vs. movies TV Movies Hollywood

Author

Bob Hope

Source

1953 Oscars Opening Monologue Oscars Opening Monologue

Medium

TV program

Language

English

Time

1953 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Hope, Bob. "Opening Monologue." Oscar Awards Ceremony. 19 Mar. 1953, Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, CA, USA.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds, and until we know what has been or will be the peculiar combination of outward with inward facts, which constitutes a man's critical actions, it will be better not to think ourselves wise about his character.

George Eliot

Adam Bede

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Topic

Formation of character Character

Author

George Eliot

Source

Adam Bede

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1859 1850s 19th century

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Original Citation

Eliot, George. Adam Bede. Edinburgh/London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1859, ch. 29.

Current Citation

Eliot, George. Adam Bede, edited by Carol A. Martin. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 29.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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Topic

Books

Author

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Source

Letters of Lady Montagu

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1753 1750s 18th century

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Citation

Montagu, Lady Mary Worley. Letter to the Countess of Bute. 28 Jan. 1753.

Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues—faith and hope.

Charles Dickens

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

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Topic

Seven deadly sins Pride Mother's love Mothers and children

Author

Charles Dickens

Source

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1839 1830s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Dickens, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. London: Chapman and Hall, Apr. 1839, issue 14, ch. 43.

Current Citation

Dickens, Charles. Nicholas Nickleby, edited by Mark Ford. Penguin, 1999, ch. 43.

The Stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

Jonathan Swift

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Topic

Self-deprivation Asceticism Stoicism

Author

Jonathan Swift

Source

Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting

Medium

Essay

Genre

Satire

Language

English

Time

1711 1710s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Original Citation

Swift, Jonathan. "Various Thoughts, Moral and Diverting." Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. 1st ed, London: John Morphew, 1711.

Current Citation

Swift, Jonathan. "Thoughts on Various Subjects (1711)." Jonathan Swift: The Essential Writings, edited by Claude Rawson and Ian Higgins. W. W. Norton & Company, 2009.

I by no means owe my works to my own wisdom alone, but to a thousand things and persons around me, who provided me with material.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Topic

Inspiration Creativity Influences

Speaker

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Language

German

Time

1832 1830s 19th century

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Original Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Conversion with Eckermann and Soret. c. 1832.

Current Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Conversations of Goethe with Eickermann and Soret, translated by John Oxenford. Da Capo Press, 1998.

Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

Apostle Paul

Romans 5:18-19

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Topic

Original sin Forgiveness of sins Salvation Jesus's death

Author

Apostle Paul

Source

Romans The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

56 50s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Romans 5:18-19).

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

W.H. Auden

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Topic

Books Collective memory

Author

W.H. Auden

Source

Reading The Dyer's Hand

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Auden, W. H. "Reading." The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays. Random House, 1962.

The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.

Quintus Ennius

Quoted in On Friendship, by Cicero

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Topic

Tests of friendship

Speaker

Quintus Ennius

Author

Cicero

Source

On Friendship

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Latin

Time

44 BC 40s BC 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Citation

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Laelius de Amicitia. c. 44 BC, ch. 17, sect. 64.

The blue period was not a question of color. It was an inner necessity to paint like that.

Pablo Picasso

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Topic

Artistic expression Self-expression Art

Speaker

Pablo Picasso

Source

Vogue

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Picasso, Pablo. "Picasso." Interviewed by Alexander Liberman. Vogue, 1 Nov. 1956.

Summer has set in with its usual severity.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Topic

Summer Seasons

Author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1826 1820s 19th century

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Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Quoted in "Letter to Bernard Barton, May 16, 1826." Written by Charles Lamb. 16 May 1826.

The lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

Sherlock Holmes

The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

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Topic

Rural vs. urban

Speaker

Sherlock Holmes

Author

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source

The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

Medium

Short story Magazine

Genre

Detective fiction

Language

English

Time

1892 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches." The Strand Magazine. London, 1892.

Current Citation

Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches." The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2010.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations... The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

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Topic

Quotations

Author

Winston Churchill

Source

My Early Life

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1930 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Churchill, Winston. My Early Life. T. Butterworth/C. Scribner's Sons, 1930, ch. 9.

The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.

Matthew Arnold

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Topic

Poetry

Author

Matthew Arnold

Language

English

Time

1862 1860s 19th century

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Original Citation

Arnold, Matthew. "On Translating Homer: Last Words." 1862, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK.

Current Citation

Arnold, Matthew. "On Translating Homer: Last Words 1862." Culture and Anarchy and Other Selected Prose. Penguin Classics, 2015.

The only valid thing in art is that which cannot be explained.

Georges Braque

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Topic

The mysterious Art

Author

Georges Braque

Medium

Interview

Language

Unclear

Time

1957 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Braque, George. Interviewed by John Richardson. New York Graphic Society, 1957.

Then shun, oh! shun that wretched state
And all the fawning flatterers hate:
Value yourselves, and men despise
You must be proud if you'll be wise.

Mary Chudleigh

To the Ladies

On marriage.

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Topic

Marriage Battle of the sexes Men and women

Author

Mary Chudleigh

Source

To the Ladies

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1703 1700s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Chudleigh, Mary. "To the Ladies." Poems on Several Occasions. London: Bernard Lintott, 1703, I. 21.

Current Citation

Chudleigh, Mary. "To the Ladies." The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh. Oxford University Press, 1993, I. 21.

It is well to superintend the sick to make them well, to care for the healthy to keep them well, also to care for one's own self, so as to observe what it seemly.

Hippocrates

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Topic

Practicing medicine Serving others

Author

Hippocrates

Source

Precepts

Language

Greek

Time

370 BC 370s BC 4th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Hippocrates. Precepts. c. 4th century BC, sect. 6.

Current Citation

Hippocrates. "Precepts." Hippocratic Writings, translated by J. Chadwick and W. N. Mann, et al. Penguin Classics, 1984.