There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Willa Cather

The Song of the Lark

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Life lessons Learning Adversity

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Author

Willa Cather

Source

The Song of the Lark

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United States

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Original Citation

Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915, pt. 4, ch. 8.

Current Citation

Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. Vintage, 1999, pt. 4, ch. 8.

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

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O Pioneers!

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Willa Cather
Source
O Pioneers!
Medium
Novel
Language
English
Time
1913 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

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

Current Citation

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

Another quote from the 1910s

The only freedom the gods grant us
Is this: to submit
Of our own free will to their sovereignty
We should do just that,
Since only in the illusion of freedom
Does freedom exist.

Fernando Pessoa

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Topic
God and man Fate vs. free will Free will

Author

Fernando Pessoa
Medium
Poem
Statement Type
Paradox
Language
Portuguese
Time
1914 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 1
Citation

Pessoa, Fernando (published as Ricardo Reis). "So esta liberdade nos concedem [The only freedom the gods grant us]." Odes. Edições Ática, 1952.

Another quote about Adversity

The way to bliss lies not on beds of down,
And he that had no cross deserves no crown.

Francis Quarles

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Adversity

Author

Francis Quarles
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1621 1620s 17th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Quarles, Francis. Hadassa; or the History of Queene Ester. London: Richard Moore, 1621, sec. 9, meditation 9.

Another quote from 1915

I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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Desire Hope

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James Joyce
Source
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Medium
Novel
Genre
Modernist literature
Language
English
Time
1915 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Joyce, James. "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." The Egoist, 2 Feb. 1914 - 1 Sept. 1915.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, edited by Seamus Deane. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 5.