1867

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When I heard the learn'd astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.

Walt Whitman

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

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Spending time in nature The night sky Experiencing things

Author

Walt Whitman

Source

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer Leaves of Grass

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

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Citation

Whitman, Walt. "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer." Leaves of Grass. New York: Self-published, 1867, I. 1. Originally published in Drum-Taps. New York: Peter Eckler, 1865, I. 1.

Politics is the art of the possible.

Otto von Bismarck

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Political compromise Political theory Politics

Speaker

Otto von Bismarck

Source

Die Gartenlaube

Medium

Newspaper

Language

German

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Von Bismark, Otto. Quoted in "Aus den Erinnerungen eines russischen Publicisten. 2. Ein Stündchen beim Kanzler des norddeutschen Bundes. In: Die Gartenlaube" ["From the memories of a Russian publicist. 2. An hour with the Chancellor of the North German Confederation. In: The Gazebo.] St. Petersburgische Zeitung, 11 Aug. 1867.

We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,
We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Walt Whitman

Pioneers! O Pioneers!

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Progress

Author

Walt Whitman

Source

Pioneers! O Pioneers! Leaves of Grass

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

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Citation

Whitman, Walt. "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" Leaves of Grass. New York: Self-published, 1867, st. 2. Originally published in Drum-Taps. New York: Peter Eckler, 1865, st. 2.

The sea of faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd;
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,

Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Matthew Arnold

Dover Beach

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Topic

Decline of religion Disenchanted world Modern life

Author

Matthew Arnold

Source

Dover Beach

Language

English

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Arnold, Matthew. "Dover Beach." New Poems. London: Macmillan and Co., 1867, st. 3, 4.

Current Citation

Arnold, Matthew. "Dover Beach." Dover Beach and Other Poems. Dover Publications, 2012, st. 3, 4.

Theory of the true civilization.
It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning, It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.

Charles Baudelaire

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Civilization

Author

Charles Baudelaire

Language

French

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

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Baudelaire, Charles. Mon Coeur mis a nu [My Naked Heart]. Paris, 1887, no. 58.

Current Citation

Baudelaire, Charles. "My Heart Laid Bare." Late Fragments: Flares, My Heart Laid Bare, Prose Poems, Belgium Disrobed, translated by Richard Sieburth. Yale University Press, 2022, no. 58.

Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves suck back, and fling,
At their return, up the high strand,
Begin, and cease, and then again begin,
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
The eternal note of sadness in.
Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the Aegean.

Matthew Arnold

Dover Beach

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The beach Waves Melancholy

Author

Matthew Arnold

Source

Dover Beach

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Arnold, Matthew. "Dover Beach." New Poems. London: Macmillan and Co., 1867, I. 9.

Current Citation

Arnold, Matthew. "Dover Beach." Dover Beach and Other Poems. Dover Publications, 2012, I. 9.

There can be no progress (real, that is, moral) except in the individual and by the individual himself.

Charles Baudelaire

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Personal growth Nature of progress Progress

Author

Charles Baudelaire

Language

French

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Baudelaire, Charles. Mon Coeur mis a nu [My Naked Heart]. Paris, 1887, no. 15.

Current Citation

Baudelaire, Charles. "My Heart Laid Bare." Late Fragments: Flares, My Heart Laid Bare, Prose Poems, Belgium Disrobed, translated by Richard Sieburth. Yale University Press, 2022, no. 15.

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women,
If it be a few ragged huts it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass

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Cities

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Walt Whitman

Source

Song of the Broad-Axe Leaves of Grass

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Whitman, Walt. "Song of the Broad-Axe." Leaves of Grass. Boston: J. R. Osgood, 1881-82, sect. 4.

Current Citation

Whitman, Walt. "Song of the Broad-Axe." Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002, sect. 4.

I have been forty years a slave and forty years free, and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

Sojourner Truth

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Equal rights Equality Political progress Politics Activism

Speaker

Sojourner Truth

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Truth, Sojourner. Address to the First Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights Association. American Equal Rights Association meeting. 9 May 1867, New York, NY, USA.

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

John Stuart Mill

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Political theory Inaction Fighting for justice

Speaker

John Stuart Mill

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

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Citation

Mill, John Stuart. Inaugural Address at St. Andrews. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1867. Orinally given on 1 Feb. 1867, St. Andrew's University, St. Andrew, Fife, Scotland, UK.

What ought a man to be? Well, my short answer is "himself."

Henrik Ibsen

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Being oneself Authenticity

Speaker

Peer Gynt

Author

Henrik Ibsen

Source

Peer Gynt

Medium

Play

Statement Type

Advice

Language

Norwegian

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Ibsen, Henrik. Peer Gynt. Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1867, act 4, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Ibsen, Henrik. "Peer Gynt." Peer Gynt and Brand, translated by Geoffrey Hill. Penguin Classics, 2017, act 4, sc. 1.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Anne Bradstreet

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Topic

Exercise of power Illegitimate authority Lack of wisdom Wisdom

Author

Anne Bradstreet

Source

Meditations Divine and Moral

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Bradstreet, Anne. Meditations Divine and Moral. c. 1664, st. 12.

Current Citation

Bradstreet, Anne. "Meditations Divine and Moral." The Works of Anne Bradstreet. Harvard University Press, 1967, st. 12.

She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it.

Anthony Trollope

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Delayed gratification Pursuing women Courtship and dating

Author

Anthony Trollope

Source

Phineas Finn

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Trollope, Anthony. "Phineas Finn." St Paul's Magazine, Oct. 1867-May 1868. Monthly serial.

Current Citation

Trollope, Anthony. Phineas Finn. Oxford University Press, 2011, ch. 57.

Axiom: hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom.

Gustave Flaubert

Letters of Gustave Flaubert

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Bourgeoisie Class warfare

Author

Gustave Flaubert

Source

Letters of Gustave Flaubert

Medium

Letter

Language

French

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to George Sand. 17 May 1867.

Current Citation

Flaubert, Gustave. Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence, translated by Francis Steegmuller. Knopf, 1993, no. 77.

To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass

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Miracles

Author

Walt Whitman

Source

Miracles Leaves of Grass

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

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Whitman, Walt. "Miracles." Leaves of Grass. Boston: J. R. Osgood, 1881-82.

Current Citation

Whitman, Walt. "Miracles." Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002.

O to be self-balanced for contingencies,
To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass

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Balance Being prepared

Author

Walt Whitman

Source

Me Imperturbe Leaves of Grass

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Whitman, Walt. "Me Imperturbe." Leaves of Grass. Boston: J. R. Osgood, 1881-82.

Current Citation

Whitman, Walt. "Me Imperturbe." Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002.

Worst of all I fear mediocrity.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Fear Mediocrity Self-doubt

Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Source

Letters of Fyodor Dostoevsky

Medium

Letter

Language

Russian

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Letter to Sofya Ivanova. c. 29 Sept. 1867.

Current Citation

Dostoevsky, Fyodor. "Letter to Sofya Ivanova, ca. September 29, 1867." Fyodor Dostoevsky: Complete Letters: 1860-1867, edited and translated by David A. Lowe, Ardis, 1989.

What a good thing Adam had—when he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

Mark Twain

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Originality

Author

Mark Twain

Source

Journals of Mark Twain

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

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Citation

Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 6. Originally from Notebook, 2 July 1867.

In a progressive country change is constant; and the great question is, not whether you should resist change which is inevitable, but whether that change should be carried out in deference to the manners, the customs, the laws, the traditions of the people, or in deference to abstract principles and arbitrary and general doctrines.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Nature of change Change

Speaker

Benjamin Disraeli

Source

Speeches of Benjamin Disraeli

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Disraeli, Benjamin. Speech on Reform Bill of 1867. Conservative Banquet. 29 Oct. 1867, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

Anne Bradstreet

Meditations Divine and Moral

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Stages of life

Author

Anne Bradstreet

Source

Meditations Divine and Moral

Language

English

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Bradstreet, Anne. Meditations Divine and Moral. c. 1664, st. 3.

Current Citation

Bradstreet, Anne. "Meditations Divine and Moral." The Works of Anne Bradstreet. Harvard University Press, 1967, st. 3.