In this world I would rather live two days like a tiger, than two hundred years like a sheep.

Tipu Sultan

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Topic

Dominance and submission

Speaker

Tipu Sultan

Language

English

Time

1800 1800s 19th century

Occupation

National leader

From

India Asia

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Sultan, Tipu. Quoted in A View of the Origin and Conduct of the War with Tippoo Sultan, written by Alexander Beatson. W. Bulmer and Co., 1800, ch. 10.

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Though inland far we be,
Our souls have sight of that immortal sea
Which brought us hither.

William Wordsworth

Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollection of Early Childhood

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Topic
Heaven

Author

William Wordsworth
Source
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollection of Early Childhood
Medium
Poem
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1807 1800s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Wordsworth, William. "Ode." Poems, in Two Volumes. Vol. 2, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807. st. 9.

Current Citation

Wordsworth, William. "Ode ('There was a time')." William Wordsworth: The Major Works: including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008, st. 9.