I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards any one.

Edith Cavell

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Patriotism Citizens of the world Interconnectedness of all people

Speaker

Edith Cavell

Source

LAST WORDS

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Last words

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Nurse

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Cavell, Edith. Final words. 12 Oct. 1915, National Shooting Range, Schaerbeek, Brussels, Belgium.

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The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

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Medium
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Original Citation

Cather, Willa. O Pioneers! Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913, pt. 1, ch. 5.

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Cather, Willa. O Pioneers, edited by Sharon O'Brien. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, pt. 1, ch. 5.

Another quote about Patriotism

Patriotism, as I see it, is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

George Jean Nathan

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Downsides of patriotism Patriotism

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George Jean Nathan
Language
English
Time
1931 1930s 20th century
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Citation

Nathan, George Jean. Testament of a Critic. A. A. Knopf, 1931, bk. 1.

Another quote from 1915

Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky.

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Topic
Adventure Beginning of a journey

Author

T.S. Eliot
Source
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1915 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Eliot, T. S. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, June 1915, I. 1.

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Eliot, T. S. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." The Waste Land and Other Poems. Vintage, 2021, I. 1.