Whatever you are, try to be a good one.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Topic

Self-improvement Personal growth

Speaker

William Makepeace Thackeray

Source

A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1897 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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India Asia

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Citation

Thackeray, William Makepeace. Quoted in A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs, written by Laurence Hutton. London: Harper & Brothers, 1898.

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What the Mediterranean Sea was to the Greeks, breaking the bond of custom, offering new experiences, calling out new institutions and activities, that, and more, the ever retreating frontier has been to the United States directly, and to the nations of Europe more remotely. And now, four centuries from the discovery of America, at the end of a hundred years of life under the Constitution, the frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.

Frederick Jackson Turner

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American frontier

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Frederick Jackson Turner
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The Significance of the Frontier in American History
Medium
Essay
Genre
Historical literature
Language
English
Time
1893 1890s 19th century
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Citation

Turner, Frederick Jackson. "The Significance of the Frontier in American History." American Historical Association meeting. 1893, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, IL, USA.

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Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations

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Words vs. actions Taking action Self-improvement Personal growth

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Marcus Aurelius
Source
Meditations
Medium
Personal journal
Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Advice
Language
Greek
Time
180 180s 2nd century
Era
Classical antiquity
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Original Citation

Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 10.

Current Citation

Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations, edited and translated by Martin Hammond. Penguin Classics, 2015, bk. 10.