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Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back,
Guilty of dust and sin.
But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack
From my first entrance in,
Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning,
If I lacked any thing.

George Herbert

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Topic

Power of love Love

Author

George Herbert

Source

Love (III) The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1633 1630s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Herbert, George. "Love (III)." The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. Cambridge: University of Cambridge, 1633, I. 1.

Current Citation

Herbert, George. "Love (3)." The Temple. Penguin Classics, 2018, I. 1.

I could never divide my selfe from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgement for not agreeing with mee in that, from which perhaps within a few dayes I should dissent my selfe.

Sir Thomas Browne

Religio Medici

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Topic

Tolerance Diversity of opinion Open-mindedness

Author

Sir Thomas Browne

Source

Religio Medici

Genre

Autobiography and memoir Religious literature

Language

English

Time

1643 1640s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Browne, Thomas, Sir. Religio Medici. London, 1643, pt. 1, sect. 6.

Current Citation

Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Religio Medici (1643)." Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, edited by Kevin Killeen. Oxford University Press, 2018, pt. 1, sect. 6.

I have come to the borders of sleep,
The unfathomable deep
Forest where all must lose
Their way.

Edward Thomas

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Topic

Sleep

Author

Edward Thomas

Source

Lights Out

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1917 1910s 20th century

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Original Citation

Thomas, Edward. "Lights Out." Poems. Henry Holt, 1917, I. 1.

Current Citation

Thomas, Edward. "Lights Out." Selected Poems of Edward Thomas. Faber & Faber, 2011, I. 1.

Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttle-fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him till he becomes invisible.

Joseph Addison

The Spectator

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Topic

Making arguments

Author

Joseph Addison

Source

The Spectator

Language

English

Time

1712 1710s 18th century

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Citation

Addison, Joseph. The Spectator. London, 5 Sept. 1712, no. 476.

When all the world is young, lad,
And all the trees are green;
And every goose a swan, lad,
And every lass a queen;
Then hey for boot and horse, lad,
And round the world away:
Young blood must have its course, lad,
And every dog his day.

Charles Kingsley

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Topic

Enjoying one's youth Youth

Author

Charles Kingsley

Language

English

Time

1863 1860s 19th century

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Original Citation

Kingsley, Charles. "The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby." Macmillan's Magazine, 1862-1863.

Current Citation

Kingsley, Charles. The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby, edited by Richard D. Beards. Penguin Classics, 2008.

History says, Don't hope
On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up
And hope and history rhyme.

Seamus Heaney

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Topic

Hope Political progress Progress

Author

Seamus Heaney

Source

The Cure at Troy

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1990 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Heaney, Seamus. The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles - Philoctetes. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1991.

In some men only the feeble glimmerings of Taste appear; the beauties which they relish are of the coarsest kind; and of these they have but a weak and confused impression, while in others, Taste rises to an acute discernment, and a lively enjoyment of the most refined beauties.

Hugh Blair

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Topic

Taste Refinement Discernment Elitism

Author

Hugh Blair

Source

Lectures on Rhetoric and Belle Lettres

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1787 1780s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Original Citation

Blair, Hugo. "Lecture II: Taste." Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. 1787, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Current Citation

Blair, Hugo. "Lecture II: Taste." Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. SIU Press, 2005.

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

James Connolly

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Topic

Oppression of women Men and women Anti-capitalism Capitalism

Author

James Connolly

Source

The Re-Conquest of Ireland

Medium

Pamphlet

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Connolly, James. Labour in Ireland: Labour in Irish History: the Re-conquest of Ireland. Dublin: Irish Workers' Cooperative Society, 1915.

What mighty ills have not been done by woman!
Who was 't betrayed the Capitol? -A woman!
Who lost Mark Antony the world? -A woman!
Who was the cause of a long ten years' war,
And laid at last old Troy in ashes? -Woman!
Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman!

Thomas Otway

The Orphan

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Topic

Misogyny Women

Speaker

Castalio

Author

Thomas Otway

Source

The Orphan

Genre

Tragedy (play) Tragedy

Language

English

Time

1680 1680s 17th century

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Citation

Otway, Thomas. The Orphan. Performed by Elizabeth Barry and Thomas Betterton and Thomas Gillow and John Wiltshire and Henry Norris and William Smith and Thomas Percival and Margaret Osborne and Joseph Williams. 1680, Dorset Garden Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 1.

Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.

Sir Walter Scott

The Talismam

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Topic

Dogs Man's best friend Man and animals

Author

Sir Walter Scott

Source

The Talismam

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1825 1820s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Scott, Walter, Sir. The Talisman. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co./London: Hurst, Robinson and Co., 1825, ch. 24.

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great Imperial family to which we all belong.

Elizabeth II

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Topic

British empire

Speaker

Elizabeth II

Medium

Radio broadcast Speech

Statement Type

Promises and vows

Language

English

Time

1947 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Elizabeth II. Speech on her twenty-first birthday. 21 Apr. 1947, Cape Town, South Africa, Africa. Radio broadcast.

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in.

William Shenstone

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Topic

Nature of law Law

Author

William Shenstone

Medium

Essay

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1764 1760s 18th century

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Citation

Shenstone, William. "On Politicks." The Works in Verse and Prose of William Shenstone, Esq. Vol. 2, London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1764.

O, what may man within him hide,
Though angel on the outward side!

William Shakespeare

Measure for Measure

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Topic

Looks are deceiving Wolf in sheep's clothing Appearance vs. reality

Speaker

Duke Vincentio

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Measure for Measure

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Measure for Measure." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 3, sc. 2.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Measure for Measure." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 2.

Old-age, a second child, by Nature cursed
With more and greater evils than the first,
Weak, sickly, full of pains; in ev'ry breath
Railing at life, and yet afraid of death.

Charles Churchill

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Topic

Old age

Author

Charles Churchill

Source

Gotham

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1764 1760s 18th century

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Citation

Churchill, Charles. Gotham. London: W. Flexney, 1764, bk. 1, I. 215.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Anthony Trollope

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Topic

Confidence Believing in oneself

Speaker

The Earl

Author

Anthony Trollope

Source

The Small House at Allington

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1862 1860s 19th century

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Original Citation

Trollope, Anthony. "The Small House at Allington." Cornhill Magazine, 1862-1863. Monthly serial.

Current Citation

Trollope, Anthony. The Small House at Allington. Penguin Classics, 1991, ch. 32.

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

Max Beerbohm

From Bloomsbury to Baywater

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Topic

Trying new things

Author

Max Beerbohm

Source

From Bloomsbury to Baywater

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Beerbohm, Max. "From Bloomsbury to Baywater." Mainly on the Air. William Heinemann, 1946. Originally published in World Review of Reviews, Aug. 1940.

Just have one more try-it's dead easy to die,
It's the keeping-on-living that's hard.

Robert W. Service

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Topic

Persistence Never giving up Challenges of life Life

Author

Robert W. Service

Source

The Quitter

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1912 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Service, Robert W. "The Quitter." Rhymes of a Rolling Stone. Dodd, Mead and Co., 1912.

There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate—the genetic and neural fate—of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.

Oliver Sacks

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Topic

Uniqueness of each person The individual

Author

Oliver Sacks

Source

The New York Times

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

2015 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Sacks, Oliver. "My Own Life." The New York Times, 19 Feb. 2015.

Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.

Wilkie Collins

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Topic

Game Men and women

Author

Wilkie Collins

Source

The Woman in White

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1860 1860s 19th century

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Original Citation

Collins, Wilkie. "The Woman in White." All the Year Round, 26 Nov. 1859 – 25 Aug. 1860.

Current Citation

Collins, Wilkie. The Woman in White, edited by Matthew Sweet. Penguin Classics, 2003.

Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

Jerome K. Jerome

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Topic

How to live Simple living

Author

Jerome K. Jerome

Source

Three Men in a Boat

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1889 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Jerome, Jerome Klapka. Three Men in a Boat. London: J. W. Arrowsmith, 1889, ch. 3.

Current Citation

Jerome, Jerome Klapa. "Three Men in a Boat." Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel, edited by Jeremy Lewis. Penguin Classics, 2000, ch. 3.