Perspective

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Consider, Sir, how insignificant this will appear a twelvemonth hence.

Samuel Johnson

Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, by James Boswell

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Perspective

Speaker

Samuel Johnson

Author

James Boswell

Source

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D

Genre

Biography

Language

English

Time

1763 1760s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry by James Boswell. 6 July 1763.

Current Citation

Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.

Daniel Kahneman

Thinking, Fast and Slow

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Perspective

Author

Daniel Kahneman

Source

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Kahneman, Daniel. Thinking, Fast and Slow. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011, ch. 38.

The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

John Milton

Paradise Lost

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Topic

Power of thought Perspective The mind

Author

John Milton

Source

Paradise Lost

Medium

Poem

Genre

Epic poem Religious literature

Language

English

Time

1667 1660s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Milton, John. Paradise Lost. London: Samuel Simmons, 1667, bk. 1, I. 254.

Current Citation

"Paradise Lost." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, I. 254.

As she frequently remarked when she made any such mistake, it would be all the same a hundred years hence.

Charles Dickens

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

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Topic

Mistakes Perspective

Speaker

Mrs. Squeers

Author

Charles Dickens

Source

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1838 1830s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Dickens, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. London: Chapman and Hall, May 1838, issue 3, ch. 9.

Current Citation

Dickens, Charles. Nicholas Nickleby, edited by Mark Ford. Penguin, 1999, ch. 9.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

St. Jerome

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Topic

Hunger Perspective

Author

St. Jerome

Source

Letters of St. Jerome

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

Latin

Time

395 390s 4th century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Citation

Saint Jerome. Letter to Paulinus. c. 395, sect. 2.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

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Topic

Empathy Perspective

Speaker

Atticus Finch

Author

Harper Lee

Source

To Kill a Mockingbird

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1960, ch. 3.

You cannot see the wood for trees.

John Heywood

Proverbs (Heywood)

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Perspective

Author

John Heywood

Source

Proverbs (Heywood)

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1580 1580s 16th century

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Citation

Heywood, John. The Proverbs of John Heywood. London: George Bell and Sons, 1874, pt. 2, ch. 4.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Studies in Pessimism

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Topic

Myopia Perception Parochialism Cognitive biases Perspective

Author

Arthur Schopenhauer

Source

Further Psychological Observations Studies in Pessimism

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

German

Time

1851 1850s 19th century

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. Studies in Pessimism. c. 1851.

Current Citation

Schopenhauer, Arthur. Studies in Pessimism. University of California Libraries, 2011.

We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy, to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a malignity truly diabolical, to believe all the world to be equally wicked and corrupt.

Edmund Burke

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Topic

Human nature Original sin Virtue Perspective

Author

Edmund Burke

Source

Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontent

Medium

Pamphlet

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1770 1770s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Original Citation

Burke, Edmund. Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents. London: J. Dodsley, 1770.

Current Citation

Burke, Edmund. "Thoughts on the Present Discontents." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face.

Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale

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Perspective

Author

Margaret Atwood

Source

The Handmaid's Tale

Medium

Novel

Genre

Dystopian fiction

Language

English

Time

1985 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. McClelland and Stewart/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1985, ch. 24.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

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Topic

Opportunities Moving forward Perspective

Author

Helen Keller

Source

We Bereaved

Language

English

Time

1929 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Keller, Helen. We Bereaved. Leslie Fulenwider, 1929.

To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Bernard Baruch

Quoted in Newsweek

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Topic

Old age Perspective Relativism

Speaker

Bernard Baruch

Source

Newsweek

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Baruch, Bernard M. Quoted in Newsweek. 29 Aug. 1955.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may-light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

John Constable

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Topic

Perspective Ugliness Beauty

Speaker

John Constable

Source

Memoirs of the Life of John Constable

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Constable, John. Quoted in Memoirs of the Life of John Constable, written and edited by C.R. Leslie. London: James Carpenter, 1843, ch. 17.

Current Citation

Constable, John. Quoted in Constable: Memoirs of the Life (Arts & Letters), written and edited by C.R. Leslie. Phaidon, 1995.