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Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
Marcus Aurelius
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
Mary Shelley
I dwell in Possibility—
Emily Dickinson
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
The Quoteiac Journal
Emily Dickinson Wasn't Fragile. She Was Volcanic.
The story most people know about Emily Dickinson goes something like this: a shy, sensitive woman who never left her house, wrote poems in her room, and published almost nothing in her lifetime. A ...
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We Got One Wrong: The Poe Quote That Was Actually Washington Irving's
We sold three products with this line on them: "There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm." The attribution on every one of them read: Edgar Allan Poe. It isn't Poe's. It's Washington Irving's — ...
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Why We Check Quote Attribution Before Anything Goes on a Shirt
One of the most-quoted lines on the internet is attributed to Abraham Lincoln: "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." Lincoln never said it. Th...
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