Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride over all obstacles, and win the race!

Charles Dickens

The Personal History of David Copperfield

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Topic

Overcoming obstacles

Author

Charles Dickens

Source

The Personal History of David Copperfield

Medium

Novel

Genre

Coming of age story

Language

English

Time

1850 1850s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Dickens, Charles. The Personal History of David Copperfield. London: Bradbury & Evans, Feb. 1850, issue 10, ch. 28.

Current Citation

Dickens, Charles. David Copperfield, edited by Jeremy Tambling. Penguin Classics, 2004, ch. 28.

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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.