John Greenleaf Whittier

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• God’s colors all are fast.

  • God

• Life is ever lord of Death
  And Love can never lose its own.

  Snow Bound, reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

  • Life & Death
  • Love

• When faith is lost, when honor dies
  The man is dead!

  Ichabod, reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

  • Faith
  • Honor

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy