Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Anthony Trollope

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Topic

Confidence Believing in oneself

Speaker

The Earl

Author

Anthony Trollope

Source

The Small House at Allington

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1862 1860s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Trollope, Anthony. "The Small House at Allington." Cornhill Magazine, 1862-1863. Monthly serial.

Current Citation

Trollope, Anthony. The Small House at Allington. Penguin Classics, 1991, ch. 32.

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O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won,
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Medium
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Language
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Time
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Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

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Current Citation

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Another quote from 1862

I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.

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End of slavery Slavery
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Source
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Genre
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Language
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Time
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Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

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Current Citation

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Our life is frittered away by detail…. Simplify, simplify.

Henry David Thoreau

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Topic
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Author

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Source
Where I Lived, And What I Lived For Walden
Genre
Autobiography and memoir
Statement Type
Advice
Language
English
Time
1854 1850s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Thoreau, Henry David. "Where I Lived, And What I Lived For." Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

Current Citation

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