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Women and wine should life employ.
Is there ought else on earth desirous?

John Gay

The Beggar's Opera

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Topic

Women Wine Alcohol

Speaker

Matt of the Mint

Author

John Gay

Source

The Beggar's Opera

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1728 1720s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Gay, John. The Beggar's Opera. 1728, Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 1, air 19.

Current Citation

Gay, John. "The Beggar's Opera." The Beggar's Opera and Polly, edited by Hal Gladfelder. Oxford University Press, 2013, act 2, sc. 1, air 19.

Think nothing done while aught remains to do.

Samuel Rogers

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Topic

Finishing a task

Author

Samuel Rogers

Source

Human Life

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1819 1810s 19th century

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Citation

Rogers, Samuel. Human Life. London: John Murray, 1819, I. 49.

So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Topic

Diversity of religion Kindness

Author

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Source

The World's Need

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1896 1890s 19th century

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Citation

Wilcox, Ella. "The World's Need." Custer, and Other Poems. W. B. Conkey Company, 1896, I. 1.

One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.

George Herbert

Jacula Prudentum

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Topic

Sleep

Author

George Herbert

Source

Jacula Prudentum

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1633 1630s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Herbert, George. Jacula Prudentum, or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Microform. London: Humphrey Blunden, 1640.

Current Citation

Herbert, George. "Outlandish Proverbs." Herbert: The Complete English Works, edited by Ann Pasternak Slater. Everyman's Library, 1995, no. 875.

Progress may have been all right once, but it went on too long.

Ogden Nash

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Topic

Conservatism Progress

Author

Ogden Nash

Source

Come, Come, Kerouac! My Generation is Beater Than Yours. The New Yorker

Medium

Poem Magazine

Language

English

Time

1959 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Nash, Ogden. "Come, Come, Kerouac! My Generation is Beater Than Yours." The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 1959.

No graven images may be
Worshipped, except the currency.

Arthur Hugh Clough

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Love of money Money

Author

Arthur Hugh Clough

Language

English

Time

1862 1860s 19th century

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Citation

Clough, Arthur Hugh. "The Latest Decalogue." Poems. Macmillan and Company, 1862, I. 3.

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

Matthew Arnold

Culture and Anarchy

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Topic

Personal growth

Author

Matthew Arnold

Source

Culture and Anarchy

Genre

Sociology

Language

English

Time

1869 1860s 19th century

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Citation

Arnold, Matthew. "Sweetness and Light." Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1869. Originally published in Cornhill Magazine, 1867–68.

The best of all things for earthly men is not to be born and not to see the beams of the bright sun; but if born, then as quickly as possible to pass the gates of Hades, and to lie deep buried.

Theognis of Megara

Elegies

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Topic

Being born The human condition

Author

Theognis of Megara

Source

Elegies

Medium

Poem

Language

Greek

Time

545 BC 540s BC 6th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Theognis. Elegies. c. 541 BC.

Current Citation

Theognis. "Elegies." Hesiod and Theognis: Theogony, Works and Days, and Elegies, translated by Dorothea Wender. Penguin Classics, 1976.

What millions died-that Caesar might be great!

Thomas Campbell

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Topic

Great man theory of history

Author

Thomas Campbell

Source

Pleasures of Hope

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1799 1790s 18th century

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Citation

Campbell, Thomas. "Pleasures of Hope, Part II." The Pleasures of Hope; With Other Poems. Edinburgh: Jones Bull, c. 1800.

Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Alexander Pope

An Essay on Man

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Topic

Pride Envy

Author

Alexander Pope

Source

An Essay on Man

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1733 1730s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Man." London: J. Wilford, 1733, ep.1, I. 125-126.

Current Citation

Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Man." The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, ep. 1, l. 125-126.

Life is an incurable disease.

Abraham Cowley

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Topic

Nature of life Life Pessimism

Author

Abraham Cowley

Source

To Dr. Scarborough Pindarique Odes

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1656 1650s 17th century

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Citation

Cowley, Abraham. "To Dr Scarborough." Poems written by A. Cowley. London: Humphrey Moseley, 1656, st. 6.

Rob him of his illusions, and man would perish of very weariness and despair.

Anatole France

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Topic

Lies Delusion Human nature

Author

Anatole France

Source

The Bloom of Life

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

French

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

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Citation

France, Anatole. La Vie en Fleur [The Bloom of Life]. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1923, epilogue.

But evil is wrought by want of thought,
As well as want of heart!

Thomas Hood

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Thoughtlessness Heartlessness

Author

Thomas Hood

Source

The Lady's Dream

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1844 1840s 19th century

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Citation

Hood, Thomas. "The Lady's Dream." Hood’s Own. London: Edward Moxon, 1862. Originally published in Hood's Magazine and Comic Miscellany, 1844.

Day her sultry fires had wasted. Calm and sweet the moonlight rose.

Thomas Campbell

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Topic

Dusk Moonlight

Author

Thomas Campbell

Source

The Turkish Lady

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1800 1800s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Campbell, Thomas. The Turkish Lady. c. 1840.

Be wise with speed;
A fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Edward Young

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Topic

Acquiring wisdom

Author

Edward Young

Source

Love of Fame, the Universal Passion

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1726 1720s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Young, Edward. Love of Fame, the Universal Passion. c. 1726, satire 2, I. 282.

Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart
Could have recover'd greennesse?

George Herbert

The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations

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Topic

Healing

Author

George Herbert

Source

The Flower The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1633 1630s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Herbert, George. "The Flower." The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. Cambridge: University of Cambridge, 1633, st. 2.

Current Citation

Herbert, George. "The Flower." The Complete Poetry, edited by John Drury and Victoria Moul. Penguin Classics, 2015, st. 2.

The sea is the land's edge also, the granite
Into which it reaches, the beaches where it tosses
It hints of earlier and other creation:
The starfish, the hermit crab, the whale's backbone;
The pools where it offers to our curiosity
The more delicate algae and the sea anemone.
It tosses up our losses, the torn seine,
The shattered lobsterpot, the broken oar
And the gear of foreigh dead men. The sea has many voices.

T.S. Eliot

Four Quartets

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Topic

Ocean and sea

Author

T.S. Eliot

Source

The Dry Salvages Four Quartets

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1941 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Eliot, T. S. "The Dry Salvages." New English Weekly, Feb. 1941.

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Charles Baudelaire

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Topic

Beauty Variety

Author

Charles Baudelaire

Source

Qu'est-ce que le romantisme?

Medium

Essay

Language

French

Time

1846 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Baudelaire, Charles. "Qu'est-ce que le romantisme?" Salon de 1846. 1846.

Current Citation

Baudelaire, Charles. "Salon of 1846." Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Literature, translated by P. E. Charvet. Penguin Classics, 1993.

Germany above all.

August Heinrich Hoffman [von Fallersleben]

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Topic

Germany

Author

August Heinrich Hoffman [von Fallersleben]

Source

The Song of the Germans

Medium

National anthem Song

Language

German

Time

1841 1840s 19th century

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Citation

Hoffmann, August Heinrich. "Das Lied der Deutschen [The Song of the Germans]." Composed by Joseph Haydn. 1841.

What's past is prologue.

William Shakespeare

The Tempest

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Topic

Past as prologue Past and future The past

Speaker

Antonio

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

The Tempest

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Tempest." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 2, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Tempest." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 1.