What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?

W.H. Davies

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Topic

Taking one's time Slowing down Busyness Purpose of life Life

Author

W.H. Davies

Source

Leisure Songs of Joy and Others

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1911 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Davies, W. H. "Leisure." Songs of Joy and Others. A. C. Fifield, 1911.

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Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome.

George Santayana

Introduction to Spinoza's Ethics

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Topic
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George Santayana
Source
Introduction to Spinoza's Ethics
Medium
Essay
Genre
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Statement Type
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Time
1910 1910s 20th century
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Citation

Santayana, George. Introduction. Ethics, by Spinoza, translated by A. Boyle. Everyman's Library, 1910, introduction.

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Consider your origin;
you were not born to live like brutes,
but to follow virtue and knowledge.

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Purpose of life Virtue

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Source
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Time
1321 1320s 14th century
Era
Middle Ages
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Alighieri, Dante. "Inferno [Hell]." La Comedia di Dante Alleghieri [The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri]. Foligno: Johann Numeister and Evangelista Angelini da Trevi, 1472.

Current Citation

Alighieri, Dante. "Inferno." The Divine Comedy, edited by David H. Higgins, translated by C. H. Sisson. Oxford University Press, 2008.