41 verified quotes from 26 writers, c. 399 BC to 1916.
Quotes 22 to 41 of 41, page 2 of 2.
Continued from page 1, which has our introduction. Still oldest first.
What “verified” means, and what we leave out: How we verify.
I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen
Our note: Jo, in the same conversation, hinting at her ink-stand and her writing.
Verified in the full text of Little Women on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #514
Painted the same decade: The Dead Christ with Angels, Edouard Manet, 1864
To have a happy youth, to be well and wisely married, and to lead useful, pleasant lives, with as little care and sorrow to try them as God sees fit to send.
Our note: Marmee telling Meg what she wants for her daughters.
Verified in the full text of Little Women on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #514
Painted the same decade: The Dead Christ with Angels, Edouard Manet, 1864
To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in innocent sufferings.
Our note: From Pierre's dream during his captivity, when he glimpses what life is for.
Verified in the full text of War and Peace on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #2600
Painted the same decade: Woman with a Parrot, Gustave Courbet, 1866
Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending
Our note: From the Finale of Middlemarch, on how a close leads into something new.
Verified in the full text of Middlemarch on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #145
Painted the same decade: The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil, Edouard Manet, 1874
That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil—widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower
Our note: Dorothea explains to Will Ladislaw the belief that keeps her going.
Verified in the full text of Middlemarch on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #145
Painted the same decade: Sulking, Edgar Degas, ca. 1870
…the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for
Our note: From 'The Grand Inquisitor', the story Ivan Karamazov tells his brother Alyosha.
Verified in the full text of The Brothers Karamazov on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #28054
Painted the same decade: Madame Manet (Suzanne Leenhoff, 1829–1906) at Bellevue, Edouard Manet, 1880
…there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home.
Our note: Alyosha's parting words to the boys at the stone, after Ilusha's funeral.
Verified in the full text of The Brothers Karamazov on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #28054
Painted the same decade: La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930), Vincent van Gogh, 1889
…to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
Our note: The close of the short essay "El Dorado."
Verified in the full text of El Dorado on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #386 · Collected in Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers
Painted the same decade: By the Seashore, Auguste Renoir, 1883
I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be
Our note: A short poem first printed in the 1890 selection edited after Dickinson's death.
Verified in the full text of I never saw a moor on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #12242 · Collected in Poems by Emily Dickinson
Painted the same decade: Still Life with Teapot and Fruit, Paul Gauguin, 1896
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, …
Our note: The first stanza, as printed in the 1891 edition.
Verified in the full text of Hope is the thing with feathers on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #12242 · Collected in Poems by Emily Dickinson
Painted the same decade: The Dream of the Shepherd (Der Traum des Hirten), Ferdinand Hodler, 1896
…we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Our note: Lord Darlington, in the play's third act.
Verified in the full text of Lady Windermere's Fan on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #790
Painted the same decade: The Shepherd's Song, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 1891
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream
Our note: From the chapter on visions and ideals.
Verified in the full text of As a Man Thinketh on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #4507
The Vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart—this you will build your life by, this you will become.
Our note: From the chapter on visions and ideals.
Verified in the full text of As a Man Thinketh on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #4507
Marilla, isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?
Our note: Anne to Marilla after a day of mistakes.
Verified in the full text of Anne of Green Gables on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #45
…looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them
Our note: Anne, looking forward to a picnic.
Verified in the full text of Anne of Green Gables on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #45
I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.
Our note: Anne near the end of the novel, after giving up a scholarship to stay home.
Verified in the full text of Anne of Green Gables on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #45
One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever
Our note: The narrator on the rare mornings when life feels endless.
Verified in the full text of The Secret Garden on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #113
Painted the same decade: Tilla Durieux (Ottilie Godeffroy, 1880–1971), Auguste Renoir, 1914
Fortunate country, that is one day to receive hearts like Alexandra's into its bosom, to give them out again in the yellow wheat, in the rustling corn, in the shining eyes of youth!
Our note: The last lines of the novel, on Alexandra Bergson and the land she loved.
Verified in the full text of O Pioneers! on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #24
Painted the same decade: Tilla Durieux (Ottilie Godeffroy, 1880–1971), Auguste Renoir, 1914
If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.
Our note: One of the short sayings in Stray Birds, which Tagore wrote in English.
Verified in the full text of Stray Birds on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #6524
Painted the same decade: Tilla Durieux (Ottilie Godeffroy, 1880–1971), Auguste Renoir, 1914
The world has kissed my soul with its pain, asking for its return in songs
Our note: A verse from Stray Birds on turning suffering into song.
Verified in the full text of Stray Birds on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #6524
Painted the same decade: Tilla Durieux (Ottilie Godeffroy, 1880–1971), Auguste Renoir, 1914
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