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I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They grew among the mossy stones about and about them; some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness; and the rest tossed and reeled and danced, and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the lake.

Dorothy Wordsworth

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Daffodils Flowers Nature scene

Author

Dorothy Wordsworth

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1802 1800s 19th century

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Original Citation

Wordsworth, Dorothy. Journal Entry. 15 Apr. 1802.

Current Citation

Wordsworth, Dorothy. "The Grasmere Journal, Journal entry 15 April 1802." The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals, edited by Pamela Woof. Oxford University Press, 2008.

All the wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light.

John Muir

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Power of nature Wilderness Nature

Author

John Muir

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1869 1860s 19th century

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Original Citation

Muir, John. Journal entry. 1869.

Current Citation

Muir, John. "My First Summer in the Sierra." John Muir: Nature Writings. Library of America, 1997, ch. 10.

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found the flower in his hand when he awoke-Aye! and what then?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Dreams Heaven

Author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source

Anima Poetae

Medium

Personal journal

Statement Type

Hypothetical situations

Language

English

Time

1816 1810s 19th century

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Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Notebook entry. c. 1816.

Give a man the secure possession of bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

Arthur Young

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Pride of ownership Property rights

Author

Arthur Young

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1792 1790s 18th century

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Citation

Young, Arthur. Journal entry. 30 July 1787.

Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in a bed.

Charles Lindbergh

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Taking risks Risk Courage Adventure

Author

Charles Lindbergh

Source

Journals of Charles Lindburgh

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1938 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Lindbergh, Charles. Journal entry. 26 Aug. 1938.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Alan Clark

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Nature of politics Politics

Author

Alan Clark

Medium

Personal journal

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1990 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Clark, Alan. Diary entry. 30 Nov. 1990.

The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people's hearts... His people were his temple, and he dwelt in them.

George Fox

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God and man

Author

George Fox

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Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1646 1640s 17th century

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Citation

Fox, George. Journal entry. c. 1646.

What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.

Anne Frank

The Diary of a Young Girl

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The Jewish people Collective guilt

Author

Anne Frank

Source

The Diary of a Young Girl

Medium

Personal journal

Language

Dutch

Time

1944 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Frank, Anne. Journal entry. 22 May 1944.

The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.

Eugène Delacroix

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Purpose of art Painting Art

Author

Eugène Delacroix

Medium

Personal journal

Language

French

Time

1863 1860s 19th century

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Original Citation

Delacroix, Eugene. Journal entry. 22 June 1863.

Current Citation

Delacroix, Eugène. The Journal of Eugène Delacroix: A Selection, translated by Lucy Norton, edited by Hubert Wellington. Phaidon, 1995.

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

Mark Twain

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Cats

Author

Mark Twain

Source

Journals of Mark Twain

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1894 1890s 19th century

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Citation

Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 21. Originally from Notebook, 2 Feb. 1894.

I want to go on living even after death!

Anne Frank

The Diary of a Young Girl

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Immortality

Author

Anne Frank

Source

The Diary of a Young Girl

Medium

Personal journal

Language

Dutch

Time

1944 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Frank, Anne. Journal entry. 5 Apr. 1944.

Uncomplicate yourself.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations

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Topic

Simplicity

Author

Marcus Aurelius

Source

Meditations

Medium

Personal journal

Genre

Philosophical literature

Statement Type

Advice

Language

Latin

Time

180 180s 2nd century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 4.

Current Citation

Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations, edited and translated by Martin Hammond. Penguin Classics, 2015, bk. 4.

Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations

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Topic

Resilience Inner strength

Author

Marcus Aurelius

Source

Meditations

Medium

Personal journal

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Greek

Time

180 180s 2nd century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 5.

Current Citation

Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations, edited and translated by Martin Hammond. Penguin Classics, 2015, bk. 5.

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations

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Topic

Loving one's enemies Loving others Love

Author

Marcus Aurelius

Source

Meditations

Medium

Personal journal

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Greek

Time

180 180s 2nd century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Original Citation

Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 7.

Current Citation

Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations, edited and translated by Martin Hammond. Penguin Classics, 2015, bk. 7.

If not becoming, don’t do it. If not true, don’t say it. Let these be your fixed principles.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations

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Topic

Lying Personal integrity Morality

Author

Marcus Aurelius

Source

Meditations

Medium

Personal journal

Genre

Philosophical literature

Statement Type

Orders and commands

Language

Greek

Time

180 180s 2nd century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Original Citation

Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 12.

Current Citation

Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations, edited and translated by Martin Hammond. Penguin Classics, 2015, bk. 12.

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations

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Topic

Circle of life

Author

Marcus Aurelius

Source

Meditations

Medium

Personal journal

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Greek

Time

180 180s 2nd century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 2.

Current Citation

Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations, edited and translated by Martin Hammond. Penguin Classics, 2015, bk. 2.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations

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Honor

Author

Marcus Aurelius

Source

Meditations

Medium

Personal journal

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Greek

Time

180 180s 2nd century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 3.

Current Citation

Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations, edited and translated by Martin Hammond. Penguin Classics, 2015, bk. 3.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

Mark Twain

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Forbidden fruit Coveting

Author

Mark Twain

Source

Journals of Mark Twain

Medium

Personal journal

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1895 1890s 19th century

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Citation

Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 23. Originally from Notebook, c. 1895.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Henry David Thoreau

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Topic

Simple living

Author

Henry David Thoreau

Source

Journals of Henry David Thoreau

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1856 1850s 19th century

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Original Citation

Thoreau, Henry David. Journal entry. 11 Mar. 1856.

Current Citation

Thoreau, Henry David. "March 11 [1856]." I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Yale University Press, 2007.

Man and animal are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Circle of life Man and animals

Author

Leonardo da Vinci

Source

Journals of Leonardo da Vinci

Medium

Personal journal

Language

Italian

Time

1508 1500s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Citation

Da Vinci, Leonardo. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. c. 1519.