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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Vincent Van Gogh

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Van Gogh, Vincent. Letter to Theo van Gogh. 29 Dec. 1881.

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Van Gogh, Vincent. Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh, edited by Irving Stone and Jean Stone. Plume, 1995.

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A purpose is the eternal condition of success. Nothing will take its place. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men of talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is a proverb... Education will not; the country is full of unsuccessful educated men... There is no road to success but through a clear, strong purpose.

Theodore T. Munger

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On the Threshold

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Munger, Theodore T. On the Threshold. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1881, ch. 1.

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It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.

William Graham Sumner

Sociology

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Sumner, William Graham. "Sociology." The Princeton Review, May 1881.

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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Virginibus Puerisque

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Crabbed Age and Youth." Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881, ch. 2.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Crabbed Age and Youth." Essays I: Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, edited by Robert-Louis Abrahamson. Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

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With me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy.

Charles Darwin

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Darwin, Charles. Letter to William Graham. 3 July 1881.

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Darwin, Charles. "To William Graham, 3 July 1881." The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, edited by Frederick Burkhardt and James A. Secord. Vol. 29: 1870. Cambridge University Press, 2022, no. 13230.

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

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France, Anatole. Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard [The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard]. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1881, pt. 2, ch. 4.

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What law have I broken? Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red, because I am Sioux, because I was born where my fathers lived, because I would die for my people and my country?

Sitting Bull

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Sitting Bull. Speech to Major Brotherton. 19 or 20 July 1881, Fort Buford, ND, USA.

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Sitting Bull. "What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken?" Great Speeches by Native Americans, edited by Bob Blaisdell. Dover Publications, 2000.

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O, my son's my son till he gets him a wife,
But my daughter's my daughter all her life.

Dinah Craik

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Craik, Dinah Mulock. "Magnus and Morna." Thirty Years: Being Poems, New and Old. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1881, sc. 2.

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There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.

Robert G. Ingersoll

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Ingersoll, Robert Green. "The Christian Religion." The North American Review, Aug. 1881.

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If Jesus Christ were to come to-day, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

Thomas Carlyle

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Carlyle, Thomas. Quoted in Carlyle at his Zenith, by David Alec Wilson. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1927.

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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.

Anatole France

The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

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France, Anatole. Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard [The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard]. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1881, pt. 2, ch. 2.

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To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?

Henrik Ibsen

Ghosts

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Ibsen, Henrik. Gengangere [Ghosts]. Kobenhavn: Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1881, act 1.

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Ibsen, Henrik. "Ghosts." A Doll's House and Other Plays, translated by Deborah Dawkin and Erik Skuggevik. Penguin Classics, 2016, act 1.

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The cruellest lies are often told in silence.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Virginibus Puerisque

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Truth of Intercourse." Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881, pt. 1, ch. 4.

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It is better to be a fool than to be dead.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Crabbed Age and Youth." Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Crabbed Age and Youth." Essays I: Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, edited by Robert-Louis Abrahamson. Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "El Dorado." Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "El Dorado." Essays I: Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, edited by Robert-Louis Abrahamson. Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

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If in other lands it be high treason to compass the death of the king, it shall be counted no less a crime here to strangle our sovereign power and stifle its voice.

James A. Garfield

Inaugural Address of James A. Garfield

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Garfield, James A. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1881, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "An Apology for Idlers." Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "An Apology for Idlers." Essays I: Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, edited by Robert-Louis Abrahamson. Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

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Under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship. There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

James A. Garfield

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Garfield, James A. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1881, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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The real offence, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his—attached to his own like a small garden-plot to a deer-park.

Henry James

The Atlantic Monthly/Macmillan's Magazine

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James, Henry. "The Portrait of a Lady." The Atlantic Monthly/Macmillan's Magazine, 1880–81.

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James, Henry. The Portrait of a Lady, edited by Roger Luckhurst. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Falling in love is the one illogical adventure, the one thing of which we are tempted to think as supernatural, in our trite and reasonable world.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Virginibus Puerisque III: On Falling in Love." Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "On Falling in Love." Essays I: Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, edited by Robert-Louis Abrahamson. Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

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