Equanimity

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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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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

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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.

The Sultan asked for a Signet motto, that should hold good for Adversity or Prosperity. Solomon gave him, "This also shall pass away."

Edward FitzGerald

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Equanimity

Author

Edward FitzGerald

Language

English

Time

1852 1850s 19th century

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Citation

Fitzgerald, Edward. Polonius: A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances. London: William Pickering, 1852.

Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Montaigne; or, the Skeptic

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Author

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source

Montaigne; or, the Skeptic

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1850 1850s 19th century

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Original Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Montaigne; or, the Skeptic." Representative Men. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1850.

Current Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Montaigne; or, the Skeptic (1850)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same.

Rudyard Kipling

If

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Author

Rudyard Kipling

Source

If

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1910 1910s 20th century

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Kipling, Rudyard. "If—". Rewards and Fairies. Macmillan and Co., 1910, st. 2.

Current Citation

Kipling, Rudyard. "If—". Rudyard Kipling: Stories and Poems, edited by Daniel Karlin. Oxford University Press, 2015, st. 2.