There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in

Leonard Cohen

Anthem

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Topic

Healing Human frailty The human condition

Speaker

Leonard Cohen

Source

Anthem The Future (album)

Medium

Song

Genre

Folk music

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1992 1990s 20th century

Occupation

Singer-songwriter Musician

From

Canada

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Cohen, Leonard. "Anthem." The Future. Columbia Records, 1992.

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There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar

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Topic
Timing Randomness Fortune Tides The human condition
Speaker
Brutus

Author

William Shakespeare
Source
Julius Caesar
Medium
Play
Genre
History (play) Tragedy (play)
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1599 1590s 16th century
Era
European Renaissance
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, 1599, Globe Theatre, London, England, UK, act 4, sc. 3.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Julius Caesar." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 3.

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Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack’d, and never well mended.

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Topic
Reputation

Author

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)
Source
Poor Richard's Almanack
Medium
Almanac
Statement Type
Proverbs, aphorisms and adages Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1750 1750s 18th century
Era
Colonial America
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard Improved. Philadelphia, 1750.

Current Citation

Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard Improved." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.