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Flint, James. Letter home. 28 June 1819.
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These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.... Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Adams, Abigail. Letter to John Quincy Adams. 12 Jan. 1780.
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Adams, Abigail. Quoted in John Adams, written by David McCullough. Simon and Schuster, 2001.
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Adams, John. Letter to the Officers of the First Brigade of the Third Division of the Militia of Massachusetts. 11 Oct. 1798.
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Adams, John. Letter to Roger Sherman. 17 July 1789.
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Adams, John. "Correspondence with Roger Sherman and John Taylor." The Portable John Adams. Penguin Classics, 2004.
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Havel, Vaclav. Letter to Olga Havlova. 5 Oct. 1981.
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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Franz Kappus. 16 July 1903.
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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters to a Young Poet, translated by Charlie Louth. Penguin Classics, 2014.
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James, Henry. Letter to Grace Norton. 28 July 1883.
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James, Henry. "July 28th [1883] To Grace Norton." The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1883-1884, edited by Michael Anesko and Greg W. Zacharias. Vol. 1, University of Nebraska Press, 2018.
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I am much occupied with the investigation of physical causes. My aim in this is to show that the celestial machine is not similar to a divine animated being, but similar to a clock.
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Kepler, Johannes. Letter to Herwart von Hohenbury. 10 Feb. 1605.
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I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.
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Jones, John Paul. Letter to Le Ray de Chaumont. 16 Nov. 1778.
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Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to David Harding. 20 Apr. 1824.
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Jefferson, Thomas. "Mr. David Harding, President of the Jefferson Debating Society of Hingham, April 20, 1824." The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Autobiography, The Declaration of Independence & His Public and Private Letters, edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden. Modern Library, 1998.
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Einstein, Albert. "Letter to his son Eduard." Quoted in Einstein: His Life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson. Simon & Schuster, 2007. Originally from Letter to his Son Eduard, 5 Feb. 1930.
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Einstein, Albert. "To Jost Winteler." The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, vol. 1: The Early Years, 1879-1902, English Translation Supplement, translated by Anna Beck. Princeton University Press, 1987, no. 115. Originally from Letter to Jost Winteler, 8 July 1901.
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Freud, Sigmund. Letter to Wilhelm Fliess. 16 Jan. 1898.
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Freud, Sigmund. The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1904, translated and edited by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. Harvard University Press, 1985.
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Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to Archibald Stuart. 23 Dec. 1791.
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Letter to Leopold Mozart. 8 Nov. 1777.
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. The Letters of Mozart and His Family, edited by Emily Anderson. Springer, 2016.
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