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The Frontier in American History

by Frederick Jackson Turner

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Antiquities of the Jews

by Flavius Josephus

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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

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One idea only still throbbed life-like within me—a remembrance of God: it begot an unuttered prayer: these words went wandering up and down in my rayless mind, as something that should be whispered, but no energy was found to express them— ...more

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Plutarch's Lives, Volume II

by Plutarch

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Letters from a Stoic

by Seneca

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“The nuns taught us there are two ways through life, the way of Nature and the way of Grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow.

Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries.

Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy when all the world is shining around it. And love is smiling through all things.”
― Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life

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