There is a strong shadow where there is much light.

Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Topic

Light and shadow Contrasts Yin and yang

Speaker

Gotz von Berlichingen

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

German

Time

1773 1770s 18th century

Occupation

Writer

From

Germany Europe

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Gotz von Berlichingen. 1773, act 1.

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The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Elective Affinities

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Topic
Marriage
Speaker
Mittler

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source
Elective Affinities
Medium
Novel
Language
German
Time
1808 1800s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Die Wahlvenwandtschaften [Elective Affinities]. Tubingen: J. G. Cottaische Buchhandlung, 1809, bk. 1, ch. 9.

Current Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Elective Affinities, translated by David Constantine. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, ch. 9.

Another quote from the 1770s

Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war let it begin here!

John Parker

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Topic
American Revolution
Speaker
John Parker
Language
English
Time
1775 1770s 18th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Parker, John. To his Minute Men at Lexington, Massachusetts. Battle of Lexington. 19 Apr. 1775, Lexington Green, Lexington, MA, USA.

Another quote about Yin and yang

There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.

Thomas Hood

Ode to Melancholy

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Topic
Yin and yang Melancholy

Author

Thomas Hood
Source
Ode to Melancholy
Language
English
Time
1827 1820s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Hood, Thomas. "Ode to Melancholy." The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur and Other Poems. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green/Philadelphia: E. Littell, 1827.

Current Citation

Hood, Thomas. "Ode to Melancholy." Selected Poems of Thomas Hood. Harvard University Press, 1970.

Another quote originally in German

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.

Adolf Hitler

Mein Kampf

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Topic
Propaganda

Author

Adolf Hitler
Source
Mein Kampf
Genre
Political literature Autobiography and memoir
Language
German
Time
1925 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Hitler, Adolf. Mein Kampf [My Struggle]. Vol. 1, Franz Eher Nachfolger GmbH, 1925, ch. 6.

Another quote of the following type Metaphor, analogy and simile

Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.

Mary Oliver

The Uses of Sorrow

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Topic
Adversity Sadness

Author

Mary Oliver
Source
The Uses of Sorrow
Medium
Poem
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
2006 2000s 21st century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Oliver, Mary. “The Uses of Sorrow.” Thirst. Beacon Press, 2006, I. 1.