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I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of Imagination—What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth—whether it existed before or not.

John Keats

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Keats, John. Letter to Benjamin Bailey. 22 Nov. 1817.

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Keats, John. "Benjamin Bailey 22 November 1817." John Keats: Selected Letters, edited by John Barnard. Penguin Classics, 2015.

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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Smith, Logan Pearsall. "Myself." Afterthoughts. Constable & Company, 1931.

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When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals... The love of money as a possession—as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life—will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease.

John Maynard Keynes

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Keynes, John Maynard. "Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren." The Nation and Athenaeum, 11 and 18 Oct. 1930.

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Keynes, John Maynard. "Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren (1930)." The Essential Keynes. Penguin, edited by Robert Skidelsky, 2016.

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It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

P.G. Wodehouse

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Wodehouse, P. G. The Man Upstairs. Methuen & Co., 1914, title story. Originally published in The Strand Magazine/Cosmopolitan, Mar. 1910.

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Love…that cordial drop heaven in our cup has thrown
To make the nauseous draught of life go down.

John Wilmot

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Wilmot, John. A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country. London, c. 1680.

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Wilmot, John. "A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country." The Complete Works of John Wilmot. Penguin Classics, 1994.

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I know you feel lost right now, but don't worry. Nothing is ever lost, or can be lost. The body, sluggish, ancient, cold, the embers left, from earlier fires, shall duly flame again.

The Notebook

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The Notebook. Directed by Nick Cassavetes, Gran Via, 2004.

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It doesn't matter how you play the game, it's whether you win or lose. And even that doesn't make all that much difference.

Teen Wolf

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Teen Wolf. Directed by Rod Daniel, Atlantic Releasing Corporation/Wolfkill Productions, 1985.

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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Henry Fielding

Amelia

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Fielding, Henry. Amelia. London: Andrew Millar, 1752, bk. 3, ch. 4.

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Ours is a land rich in resources; stimulating in its glorious beauty; filled with millions of happy homes; blessed with comfort and opportunity. In no nation are the institutions of progress more advanced. In no nation are the fruits of accomplishment more secure. In no nation is the government more worthy of respect. No country is more loved by its people. I have an abiding faith in their capacity, integrity, and high purpose. I have no fears for the future of our country. It is bright with hope.

Herbert Hoover

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Hoover, Herbert. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1929, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.

G.K. Chesterton

Orthodoxy

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Chesterton, G.K. "Orthodoxy." The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 1, Ignatius Press, 1986, ch. 4. Originally published in by John Lane Co., 1908.

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As the traveller who has been once from home is wiser than he who has never left his own door step, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinise more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

Margaret Mead

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Mead, Margaret. Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation. William Morrow and Co., 1928, introduction.

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Mead, Margaret. Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation. Mariner Books Classics, 2001, introduction.

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We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, only of our fate, not of others, and in cooperation, and friendship with others.

Golda Meir

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Meir, Golda. Address to Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry. Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry meeting. 25 Mar. 1946.

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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence—those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.

Aldous Huxley

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Huxley, Aldous. Island. Chatto & Windus/Harper and Brothers, 1962, ch. 9.

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Make not your thoughts your prisons.

William Shakespeare

Antony and Cleopatra

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Shakespeare, William. Antony and Cleopatra. King's Men, c. 1607, London, England, UK, act 5, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "Antony and Cleopatra." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 5, sc. 3.

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The negroes are now Americans. Their ancestors came here years ago against their will, and this is their only country and their only flag. They have shown themselves anxious to live for it and to die for it.

William Howard Taft

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Taft, William Howard. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1909, Senate Chamber, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Wheree'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade,
Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade:
Where'er you tread, the blushing flowers shall rise,
And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.

Alexander Pope

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Pope, Alexander. "Summer: The Second Pastoral, or Alexis." Poetical Miscellanies. London: Jacob Tonson, 1709, I. 73.

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Pope, Alexander. "Pastorals." Alexander Pope: The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 73.

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To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

William Shakespeare

Henry VI, Part 3

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Shakespeare, William. Henry the Sixth, Part 3. London: Thomas Millington, 1595, act 2, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Third Part of Henry the Sixth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 1.

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