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2024-08-07 09:15:57

"The light of the stars travels millions of miles to reach the earth, but it cannot reach our hearts — so many millions of miles further off are we!"
Glimpses of Bengal (1921)
~Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941)
#books #literature
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2024-06-22 10:15:21

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"Look thy last on all things lovely,
Every hour—let no night
Seal thy sense in deathly slumber
Till to delight
Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing."
Fare Well, st. 3 (1918).
~Walter de la Mare (April 25, 1873 – June 22, 1956)
#books #literature #poetry

2024-06-22 10:05:59

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"To inquire and to create;—these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less directly refer."
Ch. 8 - The Limits of State Action (1792)
~Wilhelm von Humboldt (22 June 1767 – 8 April 1835)
#books #literature #philosophy #linguistics

2024-06-21 08:50:33

Fallout 4 meets Project Gutenberg in this ‘classic literature’ mod
Pride & Prejudice & Radroaches.
By Andrew Heaton
https://www.destructoid.com/fallout-4-meets-project-gutenberg-in-this-classic-literature-mod/
##books #literature
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2024-06-20 19:51:05

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@npub1njx…8ycj Thanks for sharing. I saw this particular photo in your website but it is not available in the public domain.

2024-06-20 12:00:23

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"Peut-être un jour voix tendre et voilée
M'appellera sous de jeunes cyprès :
Cachée alors au fond de la vallée,
Plus heureuse que lui, j'entendrai ses regrets."
Poésies de Mme Desbordes-Valmore, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, éd. Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, 1822, Élégie, p. 117
~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (20 June 1786 – 23 July 1859)
#books #literature #poetry

2024-06-19 10:02:05

"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it."
Ch. 1 : The Love-Light - The Little Minister (1891)
Scottish Playwright and Novelist J.M. Barrie died #OTD in 1937.
Books by J:M. Barrie at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/10
#books #literature
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2024-06-18 09:56:41

#OTD in 1917.
Luigi Pirandello's drama Right You Are (if you think so) (Così è (se vi pare)) is first performed, in Milan. The play is based on Pirandello's short story La signora Frola e il signor Ponza, suo genero.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_You_Are_(if_you_think_so)
RIGHT YOU ARE (IF YOU THINK SO!) is available at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42148
Books by Luigi Pirandello at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/8041
#books #literature #theatre

2024-06-12 09:33:56

"Saying good night to the mountains, the sun throws his most beautiful rays to them, that they may not forget him till the morning."
Heidi (1880)
~Johanna Spyri (12 June 1827 – 7 July 1901)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2491
#books #literature
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2024-06-12 09:20:48

"The habit of dwelling on the past, has a narrowing as well as a debilitating influence. Behind us, there is a small, — an almost insignificant measure of time; before us, there is an eternity. It is the natural tendency of the mind to magnify the one, and to diminish the other."
Miscellanies (1836)
~Harriet Martineau (12 June 1802 – 27 June 1876)
#books #literature
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2024-06-12 08:39:55

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The Immutable Library will be updated regularly to keep up-to-date with the complete Project Gutenberg collection.
And there's more news coming soon! via @dara_proj

2024-06-11 16:51:59

Opening The Immutable Library
Why Dara’s Project Gutenberg Archive is a Big Deal
https://theimmutable.medium.com/opening-the-immutable-library-7c40a704fcbd
via @dara_proj
Project Dara has made a copy of the Project Gutenberg collection in the interplanetary filesystem.
You can browse the collection here: https://gutenberg.dara.global/
#books #literature #publicdomain
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2024-06-10 11:29:30

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"I am afraid to go to sleep, for every time I do my children come and beg me weeping not to bring them here to suffer. Tonight, they came when I was awake."
Rachel, act III, final scene. (1920)
~Angelina Weld Grimké (February 27, 1880 – June 10, 1958)
#books #literature #poetry

2024-06-10 09:18:52

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"Mudam-se os tempos, mudam-se as vontades,
Muda-se o ser, muda-se a confiança;
Todo o mundo é composto de mudança,
Tomando sempre novas qualidades."
"Times change, desires change,
Being changes, confidence changes;
The whole world is made up of change,
Always taking on new qualities."
Sonetos
~Luís de Camões (c. 1524 or 1525 – 10 June 1580)
#books #literature #poetry

2024-06-09 14:27:21

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@npub1kva…mjqx what a pity! Thanks for sharing…

2024-06-08 10:42:58

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"Peut-être que la conscience de la nullité n'est que le premier pas vers un noble essor. Les sots ne l'ont jamais. L'ignorance peut se passer longtemps de modestie ; mais, si elle vient un jour à rougir d'elle-même, elle n'est déjà plus l'ignorance."
Œuvres (1832), George Sand, éd. M. Lévy, 1856, Melchior, II., p. 338.
~George Sand (1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876)
#books #literature

2024-06-07 14:01:09

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"We are not asking whether all digital computers would do well in the game nor whether the computers at present available would do well, but whether there are imaginable computers which would do well."
"We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done."
Computing Machinery and Intelligence
~AlanTuring (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954)
#computerscience

2024-06-07 13:55:16

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Turing was prosecuted in 1952 for homosexual acts. He accepted hormone treatment, a procedure commonly referred to as chemical castration, as an alternative to prison. Turing died on 7 June 1954, aged 41, from cyanide poisoning. An inquest determined his death as suicide, but the evidence is also consistent with accidental poisoning.
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2024-06-06 09:37:07

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The Lumiere Brothers foray into filmmaking history. The beginning of the exploration of capturing movement. Workers Leaving The Lumiere Factory (1895)
via @YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvC_xrDqB3s
#art #cinema

2024-06-05 14:53:39

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"A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience."
"The Gold that Glittered". Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million (1910)
~O. Henry (11 September 1862 – 5 June 1910)
#books #literature

2024-06-05 12:22:02

"At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way. He conceived persons with torn bodies to be peculiarly happy. He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage."
Ch. 9 - The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/55
~Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 – June 5, 1900)
#books #literature
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2024-06-04 17:50:17

In June 1898.
First appearance of E. W. Hornung's fictional gentleman thief A. J. Raffles in the story "The Ides of March" in Cassell's Magazine (London).
The stories were collected into one volume—with two additional tales—under the name "The Amateur Cracksman", which was published the following year. Hornung used a narrative form similar to Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories.
#books #literature
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2024-06-04 07:56:08

"All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between them by the attempt."
#OTD in 1924.
E. M. Forster's novel A Passage to India is published in the U.K. He will write no further fiction in the remaining 46 years of his life.
A Passage To India at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/61221
#books #literature
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2024-06-04 07:38:35

#OTD in 1783.
The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
#OTD in 1784.
Élisabeth Thible becomes the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon. Her flight covers four kilometres in 45 minutes, and reached 1,500 metres altitude (estimated)
#aviation #hotairballoon
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2024-06-03 17:23:21

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@npub1y8f…peuz
Please see below:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_F._Ellet
Elizabeth Fries Ellet (née Lummis; October 18, 1818 – June 3, 1877)

2024-06-03 10:16:11

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"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? ... A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us."
Letter to Oskar Pollak (27 January 1904)
~Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924)
#books #literature

2024-06-03 09:48:09

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau's novel Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse refers to the history of Héloïse and Abélard.
https://www.rousseauonline.ch/Text/julie-ou-la-nouvelle-eloise-tome-premier-preface.php
Mark Twain's comedic travelogue The Innocents Abroad (1869) tells a satirical version of the story of Abélard and Héloïse.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3176
#books #literature

2024-06-02 10:13:16

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“Thor sang: Who is Svend among the attendants, who beyond Sundet stand?”
~Karl Adolph Gjellerup (2 June 1857 – 11 October 1919)
#books #literature

2024-06-01 14:46:11

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@npub18sk…dnf8 Thanks for sharing!

2024-06-01 14:46:00

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@npub1twh…5j6z Thank you!

2024-06-01 10:30:32

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"Não há baliza racional para as belas, nem para as horrorosas ilusões, quando o amor as inventa."
"There is no rational yardstick for beautiful or horrifying illusions when love invents them."
Amor de Perdição, 1862.
~Camilo Castelo Branco (16 March 1825 – 1 June 1890)
#books #literature

2024-05-31 13:33:15

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@npub1esh…l7yz In this particular case, no, I used DeepL...

2024-05-31 12:27:05

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"The anxious night is now over,
We ride silently, we ride silently,
And ride to our doom.
How sharply the morning wind blows!
Mrs. Innkeeper, one more glass quickly
Before dying, before dying."
Rider's song, The anxious night.
~Georg Herwegh (31 May 1817 – 7 April 1875)
#books #literature #poetry

2024-05-31 09:43:22

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«Je rêve d'un jour où l'égoïsme ne régnera plus dans les sciences, où on s'associera pour étudier, au lieu d'envoyer aux académiciens des plis cachetés, on s'empressera de publier ses moindres observations pour peu qu'elles soient nouvelles, et on ajoutera " je ne sais pas le reste".».
~Évariste Galois (25 October 1811 – 31 May 1832)
#books #mathematics

2024-05-31 09:09:41

"At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for instance, or Homer or Shakspeare. I see he covertly or plainly likes best superb verbal polish, or something old or odd."
Democratic Vistas: And Other Papers (ed. 1888)
~Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892)
#books #literature #poetry
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2024-05-30 14:08:00

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"So, timely you came, and well you chose,
You came when most needed, my winter rose.
From the snow I pluck you, and fondly press
Your leaves 'twixt the leaves of my leaflessness."
Lyrical Poems (ed. 1896)
~Alfred Austin (30 May 1835 – 2 June 1913)
#books #literature #poetry

2024-05-29 18:33:19

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@npub14ac…5wxk https://www.quora.com/How-does-the-Higgs-field-give-mass-to-everything-in-the-universe#:~:text=However%2C%20interactions%20with%20the%20Higgs,nucleons%20(neutrons%20and%20protons).

2024-05-29 09:43:27

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"An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered."
"On Running After One's Hat" - All Things Considered (1908)
~Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936)
#books #literature

2024-05-28 13:10:45

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"Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity of language."
A Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to Exhibit... : in Two Volumes (ed. 1832)
~Noah Webster Jr. (October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843)
#books #dictionaries #lexicography

2024-05-28 08:54:11

"The greater the happiness that nature sets before me, the more I lament that he is not here to taste it: the greater the bliss we might enjoy together, the more I feel our present wretchedness apart."
Helen Graham (Ch. XXV : First Absence) - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
~Anne Brönte died #OTD in 1849
#books #literaure #poetry
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2024-05-27 16:57:31

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@npub1yya…0qa2 Indeed!

2024-05-27 13:52:39

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@npub1c49…wavy Thank you!!

2024-05-26 20:04:45

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@npub1hex…vzx0 you are very welcome!

2024-05-26 12:02:55

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“L'histoire est un roman qui a été ; le roman est de l'histoire qui aurait pu être.”
"History is a novel that has been; the novel is history that could have been."
Idées et sensations. De Edmond et Jules de Goncourt
#books #literature

2024-05-26 09:13:33

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"Along the shore the cloud waves break,
The twin suns sink behind the lake,
The shadows lengthen
In Carcosa.
...
Song of my soul, my voice is dead;
Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
Shall dry and die in
Lost Carcosa."
Cassilda's Song in "The King in Yellow," Act i, Scene 2.
~Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 – December 16, 1933)
#books #literature

2024-05-25 17:25:37

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@npub1cht…4kcp thank you very much! Already fixed it…

2024-05-24 19:27:01

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@npub1g7r…jnlp Interesting, thanks for sharing!

2024-05-24 13:32:12

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@npub14cx…qwkm I found his original paper (in Latin) here:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstl.1724.0016

2024-05-24 12:07:26

#OTD in 1930.
Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
She flew in the Second World War as a part of the Air Transport Auxiliary and disappeared during a ferry flight. The cause of her death has been a subject of discussion over many years.
#aviator #womanengineer
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2024-05-23 10:56:39

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"The pencil moved prophetic: together now men read
In the fair book of nature, and find the hope they need.
The wreath woven by the river is by the seaside worn,
And one of fate's best arrows to its due mark is borne."
Life Without and Life Within (1859) - Prophecy and Fulfilment
~Margaret Fuller (23 May 1810 – 19 June 1850)
#books #literature

2024-05-21 12:18:06

"Each time we make a choice, we pay
With courage to behold the restless day,
And count it fair."
#OTD in 1932.
Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She then received the United States Distinguished Flying Cross.
#aviator #womenwriters
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2024-05-20 14:18:51

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@npub1kp9…a0g0 Done!!

2024-05-20 14:18:02

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@npub18an…95h5 I see your point. Just updated our post about her...

2024-05-20 10:12:53

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"Through the pitchy darkness that was coming she saw the glimmer of another, milder sun, she smelt the scent of the herbs in the garden at the world's end."
The Mistress of Husaby (1921)
~Sigrid Undset (20 May 1882, 10 June 1949)
#books #literature

2024-05-19 12:36:12

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"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true."
Chapter XX: The Minister in a Maze - The Scarlet Letter (1850)
~Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864)
#books #literature

2024-05-16 10:02:45

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"Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening earth,
By the winds which tell of the violet's birth,
By the primrose-stars in the shadowy grass,
By the green leaves, opening as I pass."
The Poetical Works of Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1914)
~Felicia Dorothea Hemans (25 September 1793 – 16 May 1835)
#books #literature #poetry

2024-05-16 09:53:39

#OTD in 1916.
Natsume Sōseki's novel Light and Darkness (明暗, Mei An) begins to be serialized in the Tokyo and Osaka editions of the newspaper Asahi Shimbun, but will remain unfinished at the author's death on December 9, aged 49.
Works by Natsume Sōseki at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2905
#books #literature
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2024-05-15 16:01:42

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"There are tones so high
And so low
That human ears
Cannot hear them.
It's possible, living
In forest or hedge
That birds hide from us
Singing until the morning."
Silent Night
~Albert Verwey (May 15, 1865 – March 8, 1937)
#books #literature #poetry

2024-05-12 13:41:23

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@npub1xv4…8k28 Thank you!

2024-05-12 09:46:05

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"What nursing has to do … is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him."
Notes on Nursing (1860)
~Florence Nightingale (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910)
Books about/by Florence Nightingale at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Nightingale%2C+Florence&submit_search=Go%21
#books #statistics #nursing

2024-05-11 09:05:00

#OTD in 1923.
Dorothy L. Sayers' fictional English detective and bibliophile, Lord Peter Wimsey, makes his first appearance in the novel Whose Body?, published by Boni & Liveright in the United States. The first U.K. edition follows in October from T. Fisher Unwin.
Whose Body? at Project Gutenberg:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/58820
#books #literature
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2024-05-11 07:19:41

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@npub1r42…nw3g Thanks for sharing!

2024-05-09 11:37:53

#OTD in 1923.
The première of Bertolt Brecht's play In the Jungle of Cities (Im Dickicht der Städte) at the Residenz Theatre in Munich is disrupted by Nazi demonstrators, hooting, whistling and throwing stink bombs at the actors on the stage.
This production was directed by Erich Engel, with set design by Caspar Neher. The cast included Otto Wernicke as Shlink the lumber dealer, Erwin Faber as George Garga, and Maria Koppenhöfer as his sister Mary.
#books #literature #theatre

2024-05-09 11:18:59

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"Oh! what a luxury it is to weep,
And find in tears a sad relief!"
Inez: A Tale of the Alamo (1855)
~Augusta Jane Wilson (May 8, 1835 – May 9, 1909)
#books #literature

2024-05-09 10:58:59

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"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?"
The Little White Bird (1902), Ch. 4.
~James Matthew Barrie (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937)
#books #literature

2024-05-09 10:41:26

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"One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison."
Schiller: Joan of Arc ; William Tell
~Friedrich Schiller (10 November 1759 – 9 May 1805)
#books #literature #poetry #theatre

2024-05-08 12:59:15

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@npub1d98…yhr5 Thanks for sharing!

2024-05-07 16:38:26

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@npub1w7a…tpn3 You´re very welcome!

2024-05-07 14:58:45

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"The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that ever recedes."
Chapter 69, Farewell to Nemi. - The Golden Bough (1890)
~James George Frazer (January 1, 1854 – May 7, 1941)
#books #anthropology

2024-05-07 12:31:25

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"If that condition of mind and soul, which we call inspiration, lasted long without intermission, no artist could survive it. The strings would break and the instrument be shattered into fragments."
The Life and Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
~Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893)
#books #art #music

2024-05-06 13:30:28

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"Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."
Letter to Harrison Blake, March 27, 1848. As reported in: Familiar letters (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1906), p. 164
~Henry David Thoreau (12 July 1817 – 6 May 1862)
#books #literature

2024-05-06 12:54:58

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@npub1twh…5j6z Thanks for sharing!

2024-05-06 10:15:35

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"In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism."
Major Works (ed. 1952)
~Sigmund Freud (6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939)
#books #psychology

2024-05-06 10:00:28

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"The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, therefore to foster civilization. A prominent educator tells me that fairy tales are of untold value in developing imagination in the young. I believe it."
The Lost Princess of Oz (1917)
~Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919)
#books #literature

2024-05-06 09:49:50

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"Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things."
Equinoctial Regions of America (1814-1829)
~Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859)
#books #literature #geography

2024-05-04 11:14:37

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"Ah! hills beloved!—your turf, your flowers, remain;
But can they peace to this sad breast restore,
For one poor moment soothe the sense of pain,
And teach a broken heart to throb no more?"
To the South Downs (Sonnet V). Elegiac Sonnets, 1784.
~Charlotte Smith (4 May 1749 – 28 October 1806)
#books #literature #poetry

2024-05-04 09:56:34

"“Age is my alarm clock,” the old man said. “Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?”
#OTD in 1953.
Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
The story was initially published in its entirety in the September 1st, 1952 issue of Life magazine. It was later issued as a book by Charles Scribner's Sons.
#books #literature
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2024-05-04 09:39:13

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"There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that seems to us to be real."
The Enchanted Castle
~Edith Nesbit (15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924)
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2024-05-03 12:13:35

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"Our very hopes belied our fears,
Our fears our hopes belied;
We thought her dying when she slept,
And sleeping when she died."
The Death-Bed; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
~Thomas Hood (23 May 1799 – 3 May 1845)
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2024-05-02 16:17:35

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"Absolute authority will be delegated. Full responsibility will be assumed. Those who succeed will receive advancement and satisfaction of desire. Those who fail will die."
All-Highest of Eddore, book 3, chapter 17. - Triplanetary
~Edward Elmer Smith (May 2, 1890 – August 31, 1965)
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2024-05-02 11:07:13

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"No individual word was decipherable, but, with a bold reader, groups could be made to conform to a scheme based on probabilities."
In Mr Knox's Country (1915)
~Edith Somerville (2 May 1858 – 8 October 1949)
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2024-05-02 11:00:09

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"It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form."
Three Men in a Boat (1889)
~Jerome K. Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927)
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2024-05-02 08:47:57

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"Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work."
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Richter, 1888) - I Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Book on Painting
~Leonardo da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519)
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2024-05-02 08:30:05

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"The waking man looks without fear at this offspring of his lawless Imagination; for he knows that they are but vain Spectres of his weakness."
Pupils at Sais (1799)
~Novalis (2 May 1772 – 25 March 1801)
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2024-05-01 16:16:30

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"Is there not some chosen curse,
Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven,
Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man
Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin?"
Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act I, scene i.
~Joseph Addison (May 1 1672 – June 17 1719)
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2024-05-01 07:50:33

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@npub18ev…s6l3 very true, thanks for the clarification!

2024-04-30 15:22:58

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"Break the ice, or draw that which lives in the dimness out into the full light of speech - what happens is the same: that which is now seen and now grasped is not, in its clearness, the shadowy thing that was."
Niels Lyhne
~Jens Peter Jacobsen (7 April 1847 – 30 April 1885)
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2024-04-30 10:47:03

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@npub1ujw…z49n
I don't think so. Instead, his theories were used to create the "drinking bird"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_bird

2024-04-28 11:41:52

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"One of the principal objects of theoretical research is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in the greatest simplicity."
From Gibbs's letter accepting the Rumford Medal (1881). Quoted in A. L. Mackay, Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (London, 1994).
~Josiah Willard Gibbs (February 11 1839 – April 28 1903)
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2024-04-26 16:39:11

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"Eu era alguém cujos pés, sobre uma estrada lisa, cheia de sol e árvores, se cavasse de súbito um abismo de fogo."
"I was someone whose feet, on a smooth road, full of sun and trees, suddenly dug into an abyss of fire."
A Confissão de Lúcio (1914)
~Mário de Sá-Carneiro (May 19, 1890 – April 26, 1916)
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2024-04-26 16:28:05

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"A meaningful life - this is what we look for in art, in its smallest dewdrops as in its unleashing of the tempest. We are at peace when we have found it and uneasy when we have not."
Nobel Lectures. Literature, 1901-1967 - Page 19
~Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (8 December 1832 – 26 April 1910)
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2024-04-26 15:24:22

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@npub16w8…vdnz You’re very welcome!

2024-04-26 08:04:50

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“When I die, my first question to the devil will be:
What is the meaning of the fine structure constant?”
~ Wolfgang Pauli (25 April 1900 – 15 December 1958)
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2024-04-26 07:54:33

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"It is an easy thing to call names; any fool is equal to that... and the weapon of vituperation is generally used by those who lack brains for argument or are upon the wrong side."
Elsie's Motherhood: A Sequel to "Elsie's Womanhood," (ed. 1876)
~Martha Finley (pen name: Martha Farquharson; April 26, 1828 – January 30, 1909)
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2024-04-26 07:37:44

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"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
Books by udwig Wittgenstein at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1861
~Ludwig Wittgenstein (26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951)
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2024-04-25 15:09:23

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"And half the fun of nearly everything, you know, is thinking about it beforehand, or afterward."
Uncle Wiggily's Story Book (1921)
~Howard Roger Garis (April 25, 1873 – November 6, 1962)
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2024-04-25 13:09:44

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For the German speakers: there is an interesting about on termometry, descrbing the works of Fahrenheit, Réaumur, Celsius:
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001479968
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2024-04-25 12:44:29

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@npub1gh8…95vm Already Already changed to the temperature article, thanks

2024-04-25 12:35:28

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@npub1gh8…95vm it’s something else…

2024-04-25 11:02:17

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"The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present."
The Morality of Woman: And Other Essays (ed. 1911)
Books by Ellen Key at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/502
~Ellen Key (11 December 1849 – 25 April 1926)
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