The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

Samuel Smiles

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Topic

Singlemindedness Focus

Author

Samuel Smiles

Source

Self-Help

Language

English

Time

1859 1850s 19th century

Occupation

Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Smiles, Samuel. Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct. London: John Murray, 1859, ch. 8.

Current Citation

Smiles, Samuel. Self-Help, edited by Peter W. Sinnema. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 8.

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Another quote from the 1850s

For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"

John Greenleaf Whittier

Maud Muller

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Topic
The road not taken Regrets

Author

John Greenleaf Whittier
Source
Maud Muller
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1856 1850s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Wittier, John Greenleaf. "Maud Muller." The Panorama and Other Poems. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856, st. 53.

Current Citation

Wittier, John Greenleaf. "Maud Muller." John Greenleaf Whittier: Selected Poems. Library of America, 2004.

Another quote from 1859

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away."

Abraham Lincoln

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Topic
Equanimity
Speaker
Abraham Lincoln
Source
Address Before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Language
English
Time
1859 1850s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Address Before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin." 30 Sept. 1859, Milwaukee, WI, USA.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Address to the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 30, 1859." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.