Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made.

Robert Browning

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Topic

Aging

Author

Robert Browning

Source

Rabbi ben Ezra

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1864 1860s 19th century

Occupation

Poet Playwright Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Browning, Robert. "Rabbi Ben Ezra." Dramatis Personae. London: Chapman & Hall, 1864, I. 1.

Current Citation

Browning, Robert. "Rabbi Ben Ezra." Robert Browning: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 1.

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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

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Topic
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Source
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Medium
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Language
English
Time
1860 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni. Vol. 2, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860, ch. 24.

Current Citation

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Marble Faun, edited by Susan Manning. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 24.

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It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage.

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Medium
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Language
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Time
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Authentication Score 3
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Another quote from 1864

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

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Topic
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Author

Abraham Lincoln
Source
Letters of Abraham Lincoln
Medium
Letter
Genre
Political speech
Language
English
Time
1864 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. Letter to Albert G. Hodges. 4 Apr. 1864.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "To Albert G. Hodges, April 4, 1864." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.