If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

Thomas H. Palmer

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Persistence Never giving up

Author

Thomas H. Palmer

Source

The Teacher's Manual

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1840 1840s 19th century

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Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Palmer, Thomas H. The Teacher's Manuel. Boston: Marsh, Capen, Lyon, and Webb, 1840.

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Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

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Openness to change Change

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Alfred Tennyson
Source
Locksley Hall Poems
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1842 1840s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Tennyson, Alfred. "Locksley Hall." Poems. Vol. 2, London: Edward Moxon, 1842, I. 182.

Current Citation

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "Locksley Hall." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 182.

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There is... Only a single categorical imperative and it is this: Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

Immanuel Kant

The Metaphysics of Morals

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How to behave Moral theory

Author

Immanuel Kant
Source
The Metaphysics of Morals
Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Precepts and axioms Advice
Language
German
Time
1785 1780s 18th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Kant, Immanuel. Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten [Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals]. Riga: J. F. Hartknoch, 1785.

Current Citation

Kant, Immanuel. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, translated by Mary Gregor and Jes Timmermann. Cambridge University Press, 2012.