Love may be a sleepy, creeping thing with some others, but it is a mighty wakening thing with me.

Zora Neale Hurston

Dust Tracks on a Road

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Topic

Nature of love Power of love Love

Author

Zora Neale Hurston

Source

Dust Tracks on a Road

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Black writer Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Hurston, Zora Neale. Dust Tracks on a Road. J. B. Lippincott Company, 1942, ch. 14.

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It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals. They seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

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O happy race of mortals, if your hearts are ruled, as is the universe, by Love!

Boethius

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Boethius
Source
The Consolation of Philosophy
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
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Time
523 520s 6th century
Era
Middle Ages
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Boethius. De Consolatione Philosophiae [On the Consolation of Philosophy]. 524, bk. 2, poem 8.

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Boethius. The Consolation of Philosophy, translated by Victor Watts. Penguin Classics, 1999, bk. 2, poem 8.

Another quote from 1942

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

C.S. Lewis

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Courage Virtues

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C.S. Lewis
Source
The Screwtape Letters
Medium
Novel
Genre
Religious literature
Language
English
Time
1942 1940s 20th century
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Citation

Lewis, C.S. The Screwtape Letters. Geoffrey Bles, 1942, ch. 29.