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January

1Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. Benjamin Franklin · kept 2All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. Julian of Norwich · shelf 3The safety of the people shall be the highest law. Cicero 4If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton 5Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. John Keats · shelf 6Here lies one whose name was writ in water. John Keats · shelf 7I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. Zora Neale Hurston 8Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy · shelf 9One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir 10The die is cast. Julius Caesar 11Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King Jr. · shelf 12When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a co… Edmund Burke 13I accuse. Émile Zola 14A house is a machine for living in. Le Corbusier · shelf 15I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised… Martin Luther King Jr.16Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Susan Sontag 17Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin 18With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 19That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 20Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy 21Here I stand. I can do no other. Martin Luther · shelf 22Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon 23Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings. John Gillespie Magee Jr. · shelf 24You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. Malcolm X · shelf 25A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Virginia Woolf 26The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. Karl Marx · shelf 27I am a musician. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 28Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings. John Gillespie Magee Jr.29Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. Anton Chekhov 30Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mohandas K. Gandhi 31It is not down on any map; true places never are. Herman Melville · shelf

February

1I, too, sing America. Langston Hughes 2History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce 3Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. John Stuart Mill · shelf 4The only tired I was, was tired of giving in. Rosa Parks 5If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton 6If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison · shelf 7It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens 8I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. Pablo Neruda · shelf 9If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton · shelf 10What does not kill me makes me stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche · shelf 11I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. Sylvia Plath 12Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin 13Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance… George Orwell · shelf 14Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass · kept 15Failure is impossible. Susan B. Anthony 16These are the times that try men’s souls. Thomas Paine · shelf 17Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. Dorothy Parker · shelf 18I am still learning. Michelangelo 19The only tired I was, was tired of giving in. Rosa Parks · shelf 20The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. Blaise Pascal · shelf 21You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. Malcolm X 22It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. George Washington 23Here lies one whose name was writ in water. John Keats 24I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. Sylvia Plath · shelf 25Allah tasketh not a soul beyond its scope. The Qur’an · shelf 26The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in… Victor Hugo 27Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. John Steinbeck 28To philosophize is to learn how to die. Michel de Montaigne 29We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. Carl Sagan · shelf

March

1It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · shelf 2He seems to me equal to the gods, that man who sits facing you and listens close to your sweet speaking. Sappho · shelf 3Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre · shelf 4The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt 5Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar. William Shakespeare · shelf 6How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 7To be, or not to be, that is the question. William Shakespeare · shelf 8Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. William Shakespeare · shelf 9Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of reco… William Shakespeare · shelf 10I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger. Harriet Tubman 11If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelley · shelf 12We ought not to retaliate or render evil for evil to any one, whatever evil we may have suffered from him. Socrates · shelf 13The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates · shelf 14I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. Albert Einstein 15You too, child? Julius Caesar 16We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. Elizabeth Cady Stanton · shelf 17Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains. But this is altogether a… Marcus Aurelius 18Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mohandas K. Gandhi 19Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. Rabindranath Tagore · shelf 20The drop hollows the stone not by force, but by falling often. Ovid 21The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. Johann Sebastian Bach 22The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Henry David Thoreau · shelf 23Give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry 24The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. Thucydides · shelf 25Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous. Thucydides · shelf 26Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude i… Viktor Frankl 27All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy · shelf 28I am a woman’s rights. I have as much muscle as any man, and can do as much work as any man. Sojourner Truth · shelf 29I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger. Harriet Tubman · shelf 30The report of my death was an exaggeration. Mark Twain · shelf 31Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne

April

1Lord, open the King of England’s eyes. William Tyndale · shelf 2I accuse. Émile Zola 3I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised… Martin Luther King Jr.4I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised… Martin Luther King Jr.5Cast down your bucket where you are. Booker T. Washington 6The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them. Ida B. Wells · shelf 7The Child is father of the Man. William Wordsworth 8Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel · shelf 9Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon 10So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. F. Scott Fitzgerald 11I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves. Mary Wollstonecraft · shelf 12A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Virginia Woolf · shelf 13The Child is father of the Man. William Wordsworth · shelf 14I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams. W. B. Yeats · shelf 15He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and neve… Leonardo da Vinci 16Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King Jr.17Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. Chinua Achebe · shelf 18Here I stand. I can do no other. Martin Luther 19Thomas Jefferson survives. John Adams · shelf 20It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela 21I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. Anne Frank · shelf 22I know who I am, and who I may be, if I choose. Miguel de Cervantes 23To be, or not to be, that is the question. William Shakespeare 24Moral virtue comes about as a result of habit. Aristotle · shelf 25That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Neil Armstrong · shelf 26In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present — I am rising to the work of a human… Marcus Aurelius 27I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves. Mary Wollstonecraft 28In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present — I am rising to the work of a human… Marcus Aurelius · shelf 29Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains. But this is altogether a… Marcus Aurelius · shelf 30It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of… Jane Austen · shelf

May

1The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. Johann Sebastian Bach · shelf 2Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon · shelf 3It is much safer to be feared than loved, when one of the two must be lacking. Niccolò Machiavelli 4Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James Baldwin · shelf 5The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. Karl Marx 6The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. Sigmund Freud 7A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. David Hume 8To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and… William Blake · shelf 9Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river. Jorge Luis Borges · shelf 10When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a co… Edmund Burke · shelf 11The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool. Richard Feynman 12Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity — these three — and a place in society where no one of the… Florence Nightingale 13I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. Winston Churchill 14One must imagine Sisyphus happy. Albert Camus · shelf 15In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. Albert Camus · shelf 16I know who I am, and who I may be, if I choose. Miguel de Cervantes · shelf 17The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. Geoffrey Chaucer · shelf 18Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. Anton Chekhov · shelf 19You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. Malcolm X 20Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. John Stuart Mill 21We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the… Winston Churchill · shelf 22When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle 23Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Com… Winston Churchill · shelf 24The safety of the people shall be the highest law. Cicero · shelf 25Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Ralph Waldo Emerson 26Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application? Confucius · shelf 27We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. Marie Curie · shelf 28Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Dante Alighieri · shelf 29I am a woman’s rights. I have as much muscle as any man, and can do as much work as any man. Sojourner Truth 30I think, therefore I am. René Descartes · shelf 31Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman

June

1It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens · shelf 2Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never sto… Emily Dickinson · shelf 3Tell all the truth but tell it slant. Emily Dickinson · shelf 4We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the… Winston Churchill 5Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne · shelf 6The eyes of the world are upon you. Dwight D. Eisenhower 7Above all, don’t lie to yourself. Fyodor Dostoevsky · shelf 8Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell 9If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass · shelf 10When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle · shelf 11The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. W. E. B. Du Bois · shelf 12I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. Anne Frank 13I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams. W. B. Yeats 14Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. Ecclesiastes · shelf 15I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. Albert Einstein · shelf 16A house divided against itself cannot stand. Abraham Lincoln 17The eyes of the world are upon you. Dwight D. Eisenhower · shelf 18Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Com… Winston Churchill 19The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. Blaise Pascal 20What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? George Eliot · shelf 21Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre 22Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Ralph Waldo Emerson · shelf 23Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Brontë · shelf 24Of things, some are in our power, and others are not. Epictetus · shelf 25Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell 26The past is never dead. It’s not even past. William Faulkner · shelf 27Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. Helen Keller 28Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 29It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 30Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude i… Viktor Frankl · shelf

July

1Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin · shelf 2The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway 3Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. Benjamin Franklin · shelf 4We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creat… Thomas Jefferson 5Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost · shelf 6And yet it moves. Galileo Galilei · shelf 7Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mohandas K. Gandhi · shelf 8You have a right to the work alone, never to its fruits. Let not the fruit of action be your motive, nor let… The Bhagavad Gita · shelf 9Gray, dear friend, is all theory, and green the golden tree of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · shelf 10The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. Nikola Tesla 11The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway · shelf 12I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. Pablo Neruda 13I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar 14If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? Hillel · shelf 15I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. Anne Frank 16The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them. Ida B. Wells 17What happens to a dream deferred? Langston Hughes · shelf 18It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela 19The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in… Victor Hugo · shelf 20That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Neil Armstrong 21The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway 22We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creat… Thomas Jefferson · shelf 23Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson · shelf 24History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce · shelf 25All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. Julian of Norwich · shelf 26As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere be… Carl Jung 27Dare to know. Immanuel Kant · shelf 28Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. John Keats · shelf 29Here lies one whose name was writ in water. John Keats · shelf 30Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Brontë 31Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy · shelf

August

1Call me Ishmael. Herman Melville 2Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin 3If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass 4If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelley 5That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Neil Armstrong 6A house is a machine for living in. Le Corbusier · shelf 7We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin · shelf 8He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and neve… Leonardo da Vinci · shelf 9A house divided against itself cannot stand. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 10With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 11That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 12Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. The Gospel of Luke · shelf 13Here I stand. I can do no other. Martin Luther · shelf 14It is much safer to be feared than loved, when one of the two must be lacking. Niccolò Machiavelli · shelf 15Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings. John Gillespie Magee Jr. · shelf 16You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. Malcolm X · shelf 17It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela · shelf 18The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. Karl Marx · shelf 19A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. Karl Marx · shelf 20I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. Mary Shelley · shelf 21Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitef… The Gospel of Matthew · shelf 22Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. Dorothy Parker 23It is not down on any map; true places never are. Herman Melville · shelf 24Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river. Jorge Luis Borges 25I am still learning. Michelangelo · shelf 26Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. John Stuart Mill · shelf 27To philosophize is to learn how to die. Michel de Montaigne · shelf 28I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by th… Martin Luther King Jr.29If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison · shelf 30I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. Mary Shelley 31I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. Pablo Neruda · shelf

September

1We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden 2What does not kill me makes me stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche · shelf 3If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche · shelf 4Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity — these three — and a place in society where no one of the… Florence Nightingale · shelf 5Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance… George Orwell · shelf 6Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell · shelf 7The drop hollows the stone not by force, but by falling often. Ovid · shelf 8These are the times that try men’s souls. Thomas Paine · shelf 9All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy 10I do not pretend to understand the moral universe. The arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways. I c… Theodore Parker · shelf 11The only tired I was, was tired of giving in. Rosa Parks · shelf 12We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because th… John F. Kennedy 13Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. Blaise Pascal · shelf 14Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Dante Alighieri 15Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Octavio Paz · shelf 16I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. Sylvia Plath · shelf 17Allah tasketh not a soul beyond its scope. The Qur’an · shelf 18Cast down your bucket where you are. Booker T. Washington 19Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Jean-Jacques Rousseau · shelf 20Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations. Jalal al-Din Rumi · shelf 21We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. Carl Sagan · shelf 22I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale 23He seems to me equal to the gods, that man who sits facing you and listens close to your sweet speaking. Sappho · shelf 24So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. F. Scott Fitzgerald 25The past is never dead. It’s not even past. William Faulkner 26April is the cruellest month. T. S. Eliot 27Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. William Shakespeare · shelf 28Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application? Confucius 29Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. William Shakespeare · shelf 30Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations. Jalal al-Din Rumi

October

1Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. Percy Bysshe Shelley · shelf 2Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mohandas K. Gandhi 3We ought not to retaliate or render evil for evil to any one, whatever evil we may have suffered from him. Socrates · shelf 4The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates · shelf 5From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. Chief Joseph 6Lord, open the King of England’s eyes. William Tyndale 7We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. Elizabeth Cady Stanton · shelf 8Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. John Steinbeck · shelf 9To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking t… Sun Tzu · shelf 10Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. Rabindranath Tagore · shelf 11You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt 12I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. Henry David Thoreau · shelf 13The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Henry David Thoreau · shelf 14Under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not. Hannah Arendt 15What does not kill me makes me stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche 16I can resist everything except temptation. Oscar Wilde 17For the love of money is the root of all evil. Paul the Apostle · shelf 18All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy · shelf 19I am a woman’s rights. I have as much muscle as any man, and can do as much work as any man. Sojourner Truth · shelf 20I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger. Harriet Tubman · shelf 21We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin 22If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. Mark Twain · shelf 23Lord, open the King of England’s eyes. William Tyndale · shelf 24There are tears for things, and mortal matters touch the mind. Virgil · shelf 25The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. Geoffrey Chaucer 26Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein 27I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. Sylvia Plath 28The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them. Ida B. Wells · shelf 29Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman · shelf 30Facts are stubborn things. John Adams 31Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. John Keats

November

1I can resist everything except temptation. Oscar Wilde · shelf 2I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves. Mary Wollstonecraft · shelf 3A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Virginia Woolf · shelf 4The Child is father of the Man. William Wordsworth · shelf 5I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams. W. B. Yeats · shelf 6The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. W. B. Yeats · shelf 7In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. Albert Camus 8Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. Chinua Achebe · shelf 9We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. Carl Sagan 10Here I stand. I can do no other. Martin Luther 11Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor… Benjamin Franklin 12We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. Elizabeth Cady Stanton 13Thou hast made us for thyself, and our heart is restless until it rests in thee. Augustine of Hippo 14Under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not. Hannah Arendt · shelf 15Moral virtue comes about as a result of habit. Aristotle · shelf 16Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. Chinua Achebe 17We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden · shelf 18Thou hast made us for thyself, and our heart is restless until it rests in thee. Augustine of Hippo · shelf 19We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin 20Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains. But this is altogether a… Marcus Aurelius · shelf 21Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire 22What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? George Eliot 23Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon · shelf 24Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin 25Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James Baldwin · shelf 26One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir · shelf 27I will seize fate by the throat. It shall not wholly overcome me. Ludwig van Beethoven · shelf 28To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and… William Blake 29To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and… William Blake · shelf 30If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. Shirley Chisholm

December

1The only tired I was, was tired of giving in. Rosa Parks 2You too, child? Julius Caesar · shelf 3The die is cast. Julius Caesar · shelf 4I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. Albert Einstein 5We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Joan Didion 6In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. Albert Camus · shelf 7The safety of the people shall be the highest law. Cicero 8Pluck the day, trusting as little as possible in the next one. Horace 9Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. Anton Chekhov · shelf 10Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel 11Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings. John Gillespie Magee Jr.12We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the… Winston Churchill · shelf 13I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. Winston Churchill · shelf 14Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Com… Winston Churchill · shelf 15The safety of the people shall be the highest law. Cicero · shelf 16It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of… Jane Austen 17Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations. Jalal al-Din Rumi 18We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. Marie Curie · shelf 19Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Dante Alighieri · shelf 20Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin · shelf 21I think, therefore I am. René Descartes · shelf 22Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time. Hatred ceases by love. This is an old rule. The Dhammapada · shelf 23These are the times that try men’s souls. Thomas Paine 24Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never sto… Emily Dickinson · shelf 25Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. The Gospel of Luke · kept 26We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Joan Didion · shelf 27Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne · shelf 28Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. John Donne · shelf 29Above all, don’t lie to yourself. Fyodor Dostoevsky · shelf 30Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass · shelf 31If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass · shelf

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