"I resolved never to be conquered." - Harriet Jacobs It goes without saying that Harriet Jacobs was an extraordinary human being. From an illitera...
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"The right time is any time that one is still lucky to have" - Henry James A calendar on its side transforms into an arrow. Time's ticking. Let's ...
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"I shall use my time." - Jack London The treacherous path inscribed on this map dares you to venture north, past the coast lines and jagged island...
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"Give me books, fruit, French wine, fine weather and a little music." - John Keats We love the spirit of this epicurean wish list, which Keats pet...
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"We live in the flicker." - Joseph Conrad A lightning bolt splits the night, leaving a lasting impression before it fades into darkness. • 11x1...
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"She was becoming herself, casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment." - Kate Chopin This poignant quotation is from Chopi...
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"We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way" - Khalil Gibran From his bestselling masterpiece, The Prophet. The most well known of Gibran's work...
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"Endless lively conversations over endless cups of coffee in literary cafés" - Lawrence Ferlinghetti Created in collaboration with Mr. Ferlinghett...
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"Prudence allows too little room for the mysterious whisperings of life." - Margaret Fuller This was Fuller's advice to Emerson on living a little...
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"Dance as wildly, as noisily, as furiously as you can." - Mark Twain From his travelogue The Innocents Abroad. Mark Twain spent much of his time in...
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"The Future is only dark from outside - Leap into it, and it explodes with Light." - Mina Loy From her manifesto Aphorisms on Futurism, first pub...
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"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life." - Omar Khayyám This illustration depicts two warring ideas in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám...
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"'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days" - Omar Khayyám Composed in the eleventh century, and translated into English in 1859, The Rubáiyát...
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"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." - Oscar Wilde Don’t let the sharp duds fool you, there’s something pro...
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"Become a voice." - Sappho From the poetry of Sappho. • 11x14 inch art print with white border • Premium, fine art paper made in New York • Ele...
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"Nothing vast enters the realm of mortals without a curse." - Sophocles From his play Antigone, on the temptation to sacrifice wisdom at the altar...
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"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity." - Sun Tzu From The Art of War, the Chinese military treatise dating back to the 5th century BC...
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"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." - Tennyson From his extraordinary poem Ulysses. The complete excerpt reads; Tho' much is taken, m...
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"We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep." - William Shakespeare From Act IV of The Tempest, this lin...
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