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But where's the man, who counsel can bestow,
Still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know?

Alexander Pope

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Topic

Teachers Intellectual humility

Author

Alexander Pope

Source

An Essay on Criticism

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1711 1710s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Original Citation

Pope, Alexander, [published anonymously]. "An Essay on Criticism." London: W. Lewis, 1711, pt. 3, l. 632-633.

Current Citation

Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Criticism." The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 3, l. 632-633.

Some praise at morning what they blame at night;
But always think the last opinion right.

Alexander Pope

An Essay on Criticism

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Topic

Inconsistency

Author

Alexander Pope

Source

An Essay on Criticism

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1711 1710s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Pope, Alexander, [published anonymously]. "An Essay on Criticism." London: W. Lewis, 1711, pt. 2, l. 430-431.

Current Citation

Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Criticism." The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009,pt. 2, I. 430-431.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

Anne Bradstreet

Meditations Divine and Moral

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Topic

Stages of life

Author

Anne Bradstreet

Source

Meditations Divine and Moral

Language

English

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

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Bradstreet, Anne. Meditations Divine and Moral. c. 1664, st. 3.

Current Citation

Bradstreet, Anne. "Meditations Divine and Moral." The Works of Anne Bradstreet. Harvard University Press, 1967, st. 3.

Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night.
God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.

Alexander Pope

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Topic

Scientific progress

Author

Alexander Pope

Source

Epitaph: Intended for Sir Isaac Newton

Medium

Epitaph

Language

English

Time

1730 1730s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Pope, Alexander. Epitaph: Intended for Sir Isaac Newton. c. 1730.

Current Citation

Pope, Alexander. "Epitaph Intended for Sir Isaac Newton." Alexander Pope: The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009.

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Alexander Pope

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Topic

Learning from mistakes Personal growth

Author

Alexander Pope

Source

Thoughts on Various Subjects

Language

English

Time

1727 1720s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Citation

Pope, Alexander. "Thoughts on Various Subjects." Swifts's Miscellanies. London, 1727, no. 11.

What Sculpture is to a Block of Marble, Education is to a Human Soul.

Joseph Addison

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Topic

Education

Author

Joseph Addison

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1711 1710s 18th century

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Citation

Addison, Joseph. "Tuesday, November 6, 1711." The Spectator, 1711, no. 215.

All of my friends at school grew up and settled down
And they mortgaged up their life
One thing's not said too much, but I think it's true
They just get married cause there's nothing else to do.

The Rolling Stones

Sittin' on a Fence

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Settling Marriage

Speaker

The Rolling Stones

Source

Sittin' on a Fence

Medium

Song

Genre

Rock music

Language

English

Time

1966 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Richards, Keith and Mick Jagger. Sittin' on a Fence. Performed by Twice as Much. Immediate Records, 1966.

You cannot conquer America.

William Pitt, Earl of Chatham

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Topic

America

Speaker

William Pitt, Earl of Chatham

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1777 1770s 18th century

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Citation

Pitt, William. Speech responding to a speech by Henry Howard who spoke in favour of the war against the American colonists. House of Lords meeting. 18 Nov. 1777, Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan-spoiled.

Israel Zangwill

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Topic

Christianity Paganism

Speaker

Sidney

Author

Israel Zangwill

Source

Children of the Ghetto

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1892 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Zangwill, Israel. Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People. The Jewish Publication Society, 1892, bk. 2, ch. 6.

Current Citation

Zangwill, Israel. Children of the Ghetto. Wayne State University Press, 1998, bk. 2, ch. 6.

Praising all alike, is praising none.

John Gay

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Topic

Praising others

Author

John Gay

Source

A Letter to a Lady

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1714 1710s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Gay, John. A Poem: in a Letter to a Lady: Occasion'd by the Arrival of Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. Dublin: Daniel Tompson, 1714, I. 120.

Current Citation

Gay, John. A Letter to a Lady. The British Library, 2011, I. 120.

Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas.

Bruce Oldfield

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Topic

Fashion

Author

Bruce Oldfield

Source

Independent

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1989 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Oldfield, Bruce. The Independent. 9 Sept. 1989.

Wherever a knave is not punished, an honest man is laughed at.

George Savile, Lord Halifax

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Topic

Rule of law Criminal law Law Political theory Politics

Author

George Savile, Lord Halifax

Source

A Character of King Charles II

Language

English

Time

1750 1750s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Citation

Savile, George. "Of Punishment." A Character of King Charles The Second and Political, Moral and Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections. London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750.

I wish my deadly foe, no worse
Than want of friends, and empty purse.

Nicholas Breton

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Topic

Enemies Loneliness Poverty

Author

Nicholas Breton

Source

A Farewell to Town

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1577 1570s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Citation

Breton, Nicholas. A Farewell to Town. c. 1577.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

William Pitt, Earl of Chatham

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Topic

Nature of power Absolute power Power

Speaker

William Pitt, Earl of Chatham

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1770 1770s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Pitt, William. Speech in the House of Lords on John Wilkes. 9 Jan. 1770, Palace of Westminster, Westminster, London, England, UK.

I am the daughter of Earth and Water,
And the nursling of the Sky.
I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores;
I change, but I cannot die.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Cloud

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Topic

Clouds

Author

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Source

The Cloud

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1820 1820s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "The Cloud." Prometheus Unbound, A Lyrical Drama, in Four Acts, With Other Poems. London: Charles and James Ollier, 1820, I. 73.

Current Citation

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "The Cloud." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 73.

I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.

Oliver Edwards

Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, by James Boswell

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Topic

Philosophy Pessimism Optimism

Speaker

Oliver Edwards

Author

James Boswell

Source

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D

Genre

Biography

Language

English

Time

1778 1770s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Edwards, Oliver. Quoted in journal entry, written by James Boswell. 17 Apr. 1778.

Current Citation

Edwards, Oliver. Quoted in Life of Samuel Johnson. Written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

Emmeline Pankhurst

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Topic

Women's suffrage movement Women's rights

Speaker

Emmeline Pankhurst

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1912 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Pankhurst, Emmeline. "The Argument of the Broken Pane." Dinner at the Connaught Rooms in Honour of the Released Prisoners. 16 Feb. 1912, Connaught Rooms, London, England, UK.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

G.K. Chesterton

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Topic

Literature Fiction Stories

Author

G.K. Chesterton

Source

A Defense of Penny-Dreadfuls The Defendant

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1901 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Chesterton, G.K. "The Defendant." The Wit, Whimsy and Wisdom of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 6, Coachwhip Publications, 2009. Originally published by R. Brinley Johnson, 1901.

November's sky is chill and drear,
November's leaf is red and sear.

Sir Walter Scott

Marmion

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Topic

November Autumn

Author

Sir Walter Scott

Source

Marmion

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1808 1800s 19th century

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Citation

Scott, Walter, Sir. Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co./London: William Miller and John Murray, 1808, introduction to canto 1, st. 1.

We go to gain a little patch of ground
That hath in it no profit but the name.

William Shakespeare

Hamlet

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Topic

Absurdity of war War

Speaker

Captain

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Hamlet

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 4, sc. 4.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 4.