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We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln The Gettysburg Address · 1863

Quotes

“The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.”

Ernest Hemingway · For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1940 · Primary source

“It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.”

Abraham Lincoln · The Gettysburg Address, 1863 · Primary source

“No gains without pains.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us.”

Ernest Hemingway · For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1940 · Primary source

“You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.”

Winston Churchill · The Second World War, 1948-1953 · Primary source

“Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Wealth, 1860 · Primary source

“Love seeketh not itself to please,
  Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
  And builds a heaven in hell’s despair”

William Blake · Songs of Experience, 1794 · Primary source

“I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands and wrote my will across the sky in stars.”

T. E. Lawrence · Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1926 · Primary source

Works

Ernest Hemingway · 1940
For Whom the Bell Tolls

An American volunteer joins Republican guerrillas during the Spanish Civil War and confronts love, duty, violence and sacrifice.

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