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"I resolved never to be conquered." - Harriet Jacobs It goes without saying that Harriet Jacobs was an extraordinary human being. From an illitera...

"Some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm." - Willa Cather From her novel The Song of the Lark. In our illustration, an ocean scene i...

"I have nothing to declare except my genius." - Oscar Wilde Wilde is reported to have dropped this zinger upon arrival in the New York Customs Hou...

"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." - Emily Bronte, "Wuthering Heights  An egg in its nest, composed of two halves that f...

"There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow." - William Shakespeare From the final act of Hamlet. The entire quote reads:"Not a whit, we...

"Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life." - H. G. Wells I see The Time Machine as a sto...

"He tried not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking." - Leo Tolstoy This is one of the ...

"Waste no more time arguing what a good person should be. Be one." - Marcus Aurelius In Meditations, Aurelius distills the central pillars and te...

"Strive to know yourself, for it is the most difficult lesson in the world." - Cervantes From the extraordinary Don Quixote.  The maxim "know thys...

"Imagination! Who can sing thy force?" - Phyllis Wheatley From her lyrical poem, On Imagination Phyllis Wheatley’s story is exceptional. As a you...

"Invention does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos." - Mary Shelley From the introduction to her novel Frankenstein. We respo...

"Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds." - George Eliot From her novel Adam Bede. • 11x14 inch art print with white border •...

"To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour" - William Blake ...

"Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude." - Marcel Proust Some observations are so astute that once you rea...

"All the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow." - Leo Tolstoy No one one does heavy books with heavy themes quite like Tolstoy. But if yo...

"I long to do some good in the world before I leave it." - Anne Brontë From her letters. The author of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë i...

"Nothing is worth more than this day." - Goethe From The Maxims and Reflections.  This is it, isn't it? When presented with the uncertainty of lif...

"We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way" - Khalil Gibran From his bestselling masterpiece, The Prophet. The most well known of Gibran's work...

"There is no denying the wild horse in us." - Virginia Woolf   She’s all poise and pearls, but look closer: Behind the passive exterior, a passio...

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair." - Khalil Gibran Gibran's The Prophet is one ...

"One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind." - Charles Dickens A traveler fades to black, leaving behind winding paths of c...

"Forever is composed of Nows" - Emily Dickinson Why is it that the most profound human truths are so often conveyed by the most eye-roll inducing,...

"Cease your imaginings. Confine yourself to the present." - Marcus Aurelius Marcus Aurelius was a preeminent stoic philosopher, but still found ti...

"Enter pirates." - Shakespeare Huh? Why, of everything the Bard wrote would we pick this absurd stage direction?  Because it was there, my friend....