What are men to rocks and mountains?

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

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Men Spending time in nature Nature

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Elizabeth Bennet

Author

Jane Austen

Source

Pride and Prejudice

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1813 1810s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Vol. 2, London: Thomas Egerton, 1813, ch. 4.

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Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Penguin Books, 2002, ch. 4.

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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

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Dancing Falling in love

Author

Jane Austen
Source
Pride and Prejudice
Medium
Novel
Language
English
Time
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Original Citation

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Vol. 1, London: Thomas Egerton, 1813, ch. 3.

Current Citation

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Penguin Books, 2002, ch. 3.

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Doubt grows with knowledge.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Doubt and skepticism

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Statement Type
Paradox
Language
German
Time
1819 1810s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Individual Points." Ueber Kunst und Altersthum [On Art and Antiquity]. 1826, vol. 5, issue 3.

Current Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Maxims and Reflections, edited by Peter Hutchinson, translated by Elisabeth Stopp. Penguin Classics, 1999, no. 281.

Another quote about Nature

The world today is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot.

Henry Beston

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Man and nature Alienation The elements Nature

Author

Henry Beston
Source
The Outermost House
Genre
Nature writing Autobiography and memoir
Language
English
Time
1928 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Beston, Henry. The Outermost House. Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1928, ch. 1.

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Beston, Henry. The Outermost House. Holt Paperbacks, 2003, ch. 1.

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How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?

Epictetus

The Enchiridion

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Epictetus
Source
The Enchiridion
Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Question
Language
Greek
Time
135 130s 2nd century
Era
Classical antiquity
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Original Citation

Epictetus. Ἐγχειρίδιον Ἐπικτήτου, Enkheirídion Epiktḗtou [Enchiridion of Epictetus]. c. 125 CE, ch. 51.

Current Citation

Epictetus. Enchiridion, translated by George Long. Dover Publications, 2004, ch. 51.