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Man for the field and woman for the hearth:
Man for the sword and for the needle she:
Man with the head and woman with the heart:
Man to command and woman to obey;
All else confusion.

Alfred Tennyson

The Princess

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Topic

Patriarchy Gender roles Gender relations Men and women

Author

Alfred Tennyson

Source

The Princess

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1847 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Tennyson, Alfred. The Princess. London: Edward Moxon, 1847, pt. 5, I. 437.

Current Citation

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "The Princess." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 5, I. 437.

She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it.

Anthony Trollope

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Topic

Delayed gratification Pursuing women Courtship and dating

Author

Anthony Trollope

Source

Phineas Finn

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

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Original Citation

Trollope, Anthony. "Phineas Finn." St Paul's Magazine, Oct. 1867-May 1868. Monthly serial.

Current Citation

Trollope, Anthony. Phineas Finn. Oxford University Press, 2011, ch. 57.

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

Elie Wiesel

Nobel Prize Lecture, 1986

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Topic

Political neutrality Standing up for what's right Oppression Politics

Speaker

Elie Wiesel

Source

Nobel Prize Lecture, 1986

Medium

Nobel Prize Lecture Speech

Language

English

Time

1986 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Wiesel, Elie. Acceptance speech. Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. 10 Dec 1986, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway.

Some say that no one ever leaves Montreal, for that city, like Canada itself, is designed to preserve the past, a past that happened somewhere else.

Leonard Cohen

The Favourite Game

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Montreal Canada

Author

Leonard Cohen

Source

The Favourite Game

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Cohen, Leonard. The Favourite Game. Secker and Warburg, 1963, bk. 2, ch. 19.

I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something that God recognizes I will do-and I have done it-and God forgives me for it.

Jimmy Carter

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Lust

Author

Jimmy Carter

Source

Playboy Magazine

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1976 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Carter, Jimmy. "The Playboy Interview with Jimmy Carter." Interviewed by Robert Scheer. Playboy Magazine, 1 Nov. 1976.

Faint heart never won fair lady!
Nothing venture, nothing win-
Blood is thick, but water's thin-
In for a penny, in for a pound-
It's Love that makes the world go round!

W.S. Gilbert

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Shoot your shot Courage Love

Author

W.S. Gilbert

Source

Iolanthe

Medium

Opera

Genre

Comedy

Language

English

Time

1882 1880s 19th century

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Citation

Gilbert, William Schwenck. Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri. Composed by Arthur Sullivan. 1882, Savoy Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2.

Time which antiquates Antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things.

Sir Thomas Browne

Hydriotaphia

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Time as destroyer Effects of time

Author

Sir Thomas Browne

Source

Hydriotaphia

Language

English

Time

1658 1650s 17th century

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or, a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk." Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or, a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk Together with the Garden of Cyrus. London: Henry Brome, 1658, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Hydriotaphia or Urne Buriall (1658)." Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, edited by Kevin Killeen. Oxford University Press, 2018, ch. 5.

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Helping others Man as social animal

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Medium

Paper

Genre

Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1872 1870s 19th century

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Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Lay Morals. c. 1872.

They cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicate, for they have no souls.

Edward Coke

On corporations.

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Corporations Legal theory Law

Author

Edward Coke

Source

The Case of Sutton's Hospital

Language

English

Time

1658 1650s 17th century

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Citation

Coke, Edward. Case of Sutton's Hospital, 10 Rep 32; 77 Eng Rep 960, 973, KB 1612.

Loveliest of lovely things are they,
On earth, that soonest pass away.
The rose that lives its little hour
Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

William Cullen Bryant

A Scene on the Banks of the Hudson

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Topic

The ephemeral

Author

William Cullen Bryant

Source

A Scene on the Banks of the Hudson

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1828 1820s 19th century

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Citation

Bryant, William Cullen. "A Scene on the Banks of the Hudson." Poems. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1839, st. 3.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

Edwin Hubble

The Exploration of Space

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Topic

Man and the universe Science

Author

Edwin Hubble

Source

The Exploration of Space Harper’s Magazine

Medium

Magazine

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1929 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Hubble, Edwin. “The Exploration of Space.” Harper’s Magazine, May 1929.

When I survey the wondrous cross
On which the prince of glory died,
My richest gain I count but loss,
And pour contempt on all my pride.

Isaac Watts

When I Survey the Wondrous Cross

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Topic

Salvation

Author

Isaac Watts

Source

When I Survey the Wondrous Cross

Medium

Hymn Song

Language

English

Time

1707 1700s 18th century

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Citation

Watts, Isaac. "Crucifixion to the World, by the Cross of Christ." Hymns and Spiritual Songs. 1707, I. 1.

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian; or The Evening Redness in the West

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The world

Author

Cormac McCarthy

Source

Blood Meridian; or The Evening Redness in the West

Medium

Novel

Genre

Western literature

Language

English

Time

1985 1980s 20th century

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Citation

McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian; or The Evening Redness in the West. Random House, 1985, ch. 17.

Men are like plants; the goodness and flavor of the fruit proceeds from the peculiar soil and exposition in which they grow.

J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

Letters from an American Farmer

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Topic

Formation of character

Author

J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

Source

Letters from an American Farmer

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1782 1780s 18th century

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Original Citation

Crevecoeur, Michel Guillaume Jean [published as J. Hector St. John]. "What Is an American?" Letters from an American Farmer. London: Davies & Davies, 1782.

Current Citation

Crevecoeur, J. Hector St. John. "Letters From an American Farmer." Letters From an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America, edited by Albert E. Stone. Penguin Classics, 1981.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Henry Miller

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Purpose of life

Author

Henry Miller

Language

English

Time

1941 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Miller, Henry. "Creative Death." The Wisdom of the Heart. New Directions Books, 1941.

What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,
I have forgotten, and what arms have lain
Under my head till morning

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Flings

Author

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Source

What Lips My Lips Have Kissed

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1923 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Millay, Edna St. Vincent. "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed." The Harp-Weaver, and Other Poems. Harper & Brothers, 1923, I. 1.

Err in the direction of kindness.

George Saunders

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Kindness

Speaker

George Saunders

Source

2013 Syracuse commencement address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Commencement address

Language

English

Time

2013 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Saunders, George. Convocation speech for the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University. 11 May 2013, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA.

Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.

Samuel Johnson

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Topic

War and truth War

Author

Samuel Johnson

Source

The Idler

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1758 1750s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Citation

Johnson, Samuel. "Idler." Universal Chronicle, 11 Nov. 1758, no. 30.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

John Ruskin

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Topic

Nature of beauty Beauty Lilies Flowers

Author

John Ruskin

Source

Stones of Venice

Medium

Treatise

Language

English

Time

1851 1850s 19th century

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Original Citation

Ruskin, John. The Stones of Venice. Vol. 1, London: Smith, Edler & Co., 1851, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Ruskin, John. "The Stones of Venice." The Works of John Ruskin, edited by Edward Tyas Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Vol. 9, Cambridge University Press, 2010, ch. 2.

Once I built a railroad, now it's done.
Brother, can you spare a dime?

Yip Harburg

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Topic

Great Depression

Speaker

Rex Weber

Author

Yip Harburg

Source

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Americana

Medium

Song Play

Genre

Musical (play) Musical

Language

English

Time

1932 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Harburg, E. Y. "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" Americana. Composed by Jay Gorney. 1932, Shubert Theatre, New York City, New York, USA.