Emily Dickinson

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• Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul⁠—and sings the tunes without the words⁠—and never stops at all.

  “Hope” is the thing with feathers (1891)In context

  • Hope

• A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

  • Talking

• Success is counted sweetest by those who ne’er succeed.

  Success is counted sweetest (1864)In context

  • Success

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

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• 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).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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