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Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived i...
Second Inaugural Address
Abraham Lincoln
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the...
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a qua...
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will no...
Circles
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this pr...
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foo...
Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats
Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, thou foster-child of silence and slow time, sylvan histori...
Song of Myself
Walt Whitman
I celebrate myself, and sing myself, and what I assume you shall assume, for every atom belonging to...
The Man in the Arena
Theodore Roosevelt
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where th...
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solita...
On the Art of Writing
Mark Twain
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. It is the ...
Walden: On Simplicity
Henry David Thoreau
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or...
Self-Reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers ...
The Elements of Style
Strunk & White
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecess...
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. If you...
Scientific Advertising
Claude Hopkins
The competent advertising man must understand psychology. The more he knows about it the better. He ...
On The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe
Of all melancholy topics, what, according to the universal understanding of mankind, is the most mel...
We Shall Fight on the Beaches
Winston Churchill
We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall...
Psalm 23
King James Bible
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want....
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July
Frederick Douglass
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than ...
The Way to Wealth
Benjamin Franklin
Courteous Reader, I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his Works ...
The Gospel of Wealth
Andrew Carnegie
The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may s...
Letters to His Son
Lord Chesterfield
Dear Boy,...
On Writing
Benjamin Franklin
I took great delight in the study of language, and became extremely correct in the use of it. About ...
On Self-Improvement
Benjamin Franklin
I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection. I wished to live without c...
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