His honour rooted in dishonoured stood
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But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.
A short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne: TB
“on the shore of the wide world I stand alone, and think
A poem by Maya Angelou
A story by J.D. Salinger: TCITR
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare - “O my love, my wife! Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.” Romeo finds Juliet drugged and assumes she is dead. He kills himself but then she awakens
An American literary, political, and philosophical movement of the early nineteenth century, centered around Ralph Waldo Emerson. Other important transcendentalists were Henry David Thoreau.
Let not the royal bed of Denmark be
A couch for luxury and damnèd incest.
Where does this exerpt come from?
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches today to save nine to-morrow.
“Good we must love, and must hate ill,
For ill is ill, and good good still;
But there are things indifferent,
Which we may neither hate, nor love,
But one, and then another prove,
As we shall find our fancy bent.”
Author of Young Goodman Brown