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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Andre Gide

The Counterfeiters

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Topic

Taking risks Courage Discovery

Speaker

Edouard

Author

Andre Gide

Source

The Counterfeiters

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

French

Time

1925 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Gide, Andre. Les Faux-monnayeurs [The Counterfeiters]. Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1925, pt. 3, ch. 15.

Current Citation

Gide, Andre. The Counterfeiters, translated by Dorothy Bussy. Penguin Books, 1990, pt. 3, ch. 15.

Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.

Hermann Hesse

Steppenwolf

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Topic

Solitude Stillness

Author

Hermann Hesse

Source

Steppenwolf

Medium

Novel

Language

German

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Hesse, Herman. Der Steppenwolf [The Steppenwolf]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1927.

Current Citation

Hesse, Herman. Steppenwolf, translated by Basil Creighton. Picador, 2002.

All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated.

John Donne

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes

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Topic

Nature of death Death

Author

John Donne

Source

Meditation XVII Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1624 1620s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Donne, John. "Meditation XVII." Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes. London, 1624.

Current Citation

Donne, John. "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions." Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel. Vintage, 1999, meditation 17.

It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain.

Francis Kilvert

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Topic

Spending time in nature Man and nature Nature

Author

Francis Kilvert

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1871 1870s 19th century

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Citation

Kilvert, Francis. Diary entry. 29 May 1871.

The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

Carl Jung

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Topic

Middle age Youth vs. old age

Author

Carl Jung

Source

The Stages of Life

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

German

Time

1931 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Jung, Carl. "Die Lebenswende." Seelenprobleme der Gegenwart. Rascher, 1931.

Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.

Terry Pratchett

Moving Pictures

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Topic

Lost youth Youth vs. old age Old age

Author

Terry Pratchett

Source

Moving Pictures

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1990 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Pratchett, Terry. Moving Pictures. Victor Gollancz, 1990.

With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. No difference of political opinion can alienate Cicero. No heresy can excite the horror of Bossuet.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Topic

Western intellectual tradition

Author

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Source

Lord Bacon Edinburgh Review

Medium

Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

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Citation

Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "Lord Bacon." Edinburgh Review, July 1837.

Young people have a marvellous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. Even if they are unhappy-very unhappy-it is astonishing how easily they can be prevented from finding it out, or at any rate from attributing it to any other cause than their own sinfulness.

Samuel Butler (Novelist)

The Way of All Flesh

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Topic

Adaptability

Author

Samuel Butler (Novelist)

Source

The Way of All Flesh

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1902 1900s 20th century

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Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. Grant Richards, 1903, ch. 6.

Current Citation

Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. Everyman's Library, 1993, ch. 6.

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it for ever.

Lord Chesterfield

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Topic

Forgiveness Contempt

Author

Lord Chesterfield

Source

Letters of Lord Chesterfield

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1748 1740s 18th century

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Citation

Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Letter to his son. 1 July 1748.

Nothing begins, and nothing ends,
That is not paid with moan;
For we are born in other's pain,
And perish in our own.

Francis Thompson

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Topic

Life and death The human condition

Author

Francis Thompson

Source

Daisy

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1893 1890s 19th century

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Citation

Thompson, Francis. "Daisy." Poems. London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1893, st. 15.

I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They grew among the mossy stones about and about them; some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness; and the rest tossed and reeled and danced, and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the lake.

Dorothy Wordsworth

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Topic

Daffodils Flowers Nature scene

Author

Dorothy Wordsworth

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1802 1800s 19th century

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Original Citation

Wordsworth, Dorothy. Journal Entry. 15 Apr. 1802.

Current Citation

Wordsworth, Dorothy. "The Grasmere Journal, Journal entry 15 April 1802." The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals, edited by Pamela Woof. Oxford University Press, 2008.

It is surely in reality the most important work in the world. What do ships, railways, mines, cars, government etc. exist for except that people may be fed, warmed, and safe in their own homes?

C.S. Lewis

On homemaking.

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Topic

Housework and homemaking

Author

C.S. Lewis

Source

Letters of C.S. Lewis

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Lewis, C.S. "16 March 1955." Letters of C.S. Lewis, edited by W.H. Lewis. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1966. Originally from Letter to Mrs. Johnson, 16 Mar. 1955.

Manners are of more importance than laws... Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. They give their whole form and color to our lives.

Edmund Burke

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Topic

Manners Custom and convention

Author

Edmund Burke

Source

Two Letters to a Member of the Present Parliament, on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France

Medium

Open letter Letter

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1796 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Burke, Edmund. Two Letters to a Member of the Present Parliament, on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France. London: F. and C. Rivington, 1796, letter 1.

Current Citation

Burke, Edmund. Letters on a Regicide Peace." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009, letter 1.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Thomas Mann

The Magic Mountain

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Topic

Nature of time Time

Author

Thomas Mann

Source

The Magic Mountain

Medium

Novel

Language

German

Time

1924 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Mann, Thomas. Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1924, ch. 7.

Current Citation

Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Everyman's Library, 2005, ch. 7.

The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,
Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere.

William Cullen Bryant

The Death of the Flowers

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Topic

Autumn

Author

William Cullen Bryant

Source

The Death of the Flowers

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1832 1830s 19th century

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Citation

Bryant, William Cullen. "The Death of the Flowers." Poems. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1839, st. 1.

Women are like tricks by sleight of hand,
Which, to admire, we should not understand.

William Congreve

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Topic

Incomprehensibility of women Men and women Women

Speaker

Valentine

Author

William Congreve

Source

Love for Love

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1695 1690s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Congreve, William. Love for Love. 30 Apr. 1695, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, England, UK, act 4, sc. 21.

Current Citation

Congreve, William. "Love for Love." The Way of the World and Other Plays, edited by Eric S. Rump. Penguin Classics, 2006, act 4, sc. 21.

All the wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light.

John Muir

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Topic

Power of nature Wilderness Nature

Author

John Muir

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1869 1860s 19th century

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Original Citation

Muir, John. Journal entry. 1869.

Current Citation

Muir, John. "My First Summer in the Sierra." John Muir: Nature Writings. Library of America, 1997, ch. 10.

It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates every thing to itself, as proper nourishment; and, from the first moment of your begetting it, it generally grows the stronger by every thing you see, hear, read, or understand.

Laurence Sterne

Tristram Shandy

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Topic

Confirmation bias Cognitive biases

Author

Laurence Sterne

Source

Tristram Shandy

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1760 1760s 18th century

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Original Citation

Sterne, Laurence. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Vol. 2, London: Ann Ward, 1760, ch. 19.

Current Citation

Sterne, Laurence. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, edited by Ian Campbell Ross. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 19.

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

Ellen Glasgow

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Topic

History of ideas Ideas

Speaker

Ellen Glasgow

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1936 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Glasgow, Ellen. Address in New York. Modern Language Association meeting. 1936, New York, NY, USA.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

Carl Jung

Psychological Types

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Topic

Imagination

Author

Carl Jung

Source

Psychological Types

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

German

Time

1921 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Jung, Carl. Psychologische Typen [Psychological Types]. Rascher Verlag, 1921.

Current Citation

Jung, Carl. Psychological Types, edited by R. F. C. Hull, translated by H. G. Baynes. Princeton University Press, 1976.