Identity quotes

The Wisdom of Life, T. Bailey Saunders translation; Project Gutenberg #10741. The sentence continues by contrasting inner qualities with social reputation.

The Conservation of Races, Academy Creed, point 6; Project Gutenberg #5685. This is Du Bois’s own programmatic statement. The essay’s broader nineteenth-century racial theory remains historical context and is not presented as current biological science.

My Larger Education, Chapter I, “Learning from Men and Things”; Project Gutenberg #73923. Washington reflects on how he came to emphasize internal discipline and concentrated effort while explicitly acknowledging externally imposed disadvantage.

A Voice from the South, “Womanhood a Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race,” Project Gutenberg #61741 / Wikisource 1892 text. The sentence belongs to Cooper's Black feminist argument about representation, education and racial uplift; it is not a generic claim that one individual literally represents every Black person.

On the Shortness of Life, Chapter XIX; Seneca closes by asking the engrossed to measure how much of their lifetime was actually their own.

Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil, “Credo,” originally published in 1920. Project Gutenberg #15210. The sentence continues with freedom of association, movement, thought, dream and work “uncursed by color.”

The Wisdom of Life; Schopenhauer argues that personality has a more direct relation to happiness than property, rank, or external opinion.

The novel contrasts outside pressure with the value of attending to one’s own judgment.

The Majesty of Calmness, “The Dignity of Self-Reliance.” Jordan’s ideal of independence is period self-development writing; it does not require isolation or refusal of legitimate help.

The Art of Literature, section “On Thinking for Oneself,” T. Bailey Saunders translation; Project Gutenberg #10714. The library analogy immediately precedes the sentence.

Human, All-Too-Human, Part I, aphorism 579, “Unsuitable For a Party-man”; Helen Zimmern translation.

On Liberty, Chapter III; Mill links individuality, cultivated impulses and energetic character.

The Victorious Attitude; this sentence appears in Marden’s sustained argument that loss of self-faith is more damaging than the loss of possessions or an individual undertaking.

The World I Live In (1908), Chapter XII, “The Larger Sanctions,” printed page 160, Project Gutenberg #27683. The sentence “My intellectual horizon is infinitely wide” immediately follows Keller’s assertion about mental vision and belongs to the same first-person philosophical defense of intellectual and imaginative range.

Rights of Man; this sentence precedes Paine’s well-known cosmopolitan statement about country and doing good.

Leaves of Grass (1860), poem “Walt Whitman’s Caution,” represented on Wikisource from the 1860 edition.

Mental Efficiency, discussion of reading and self-development. The short imperative belongs to Bennett’s practical advice about choosing a field for sustained personal study.

Dhammapada 165, Chapter XII “Self,” Max Müller translation; “purity” is religious-ethical language from the source, not a claim about personal worth or bodily purity.

The Simple Life, later chapter on simple living and wealth, Mary Louise Hendee translation, Project Gutenberg #23092; Wagner distinguishes possession from personal identity.

Tao Teh King, chapter 33, James Legge translation; the chapter continues by connecting contentment with richness and steadfastness with will.

The Scarlet Letter, Chapter XX, “The Minister in a Maze,” Project Gutenberg #33. Hawthorne’s narrator says that a man who long wears one face privately and another before the multitude may become bewildered about which is true while describing Arthur Dimmesdale’s divided identity. It remains literary moral and psychological characterization rather than a clinical diagnosis.

Self-Control, Its Kingship and Majesty, “The Kingship of Self-Control.” Project Gutenberg #51469. The line belongs to late-nineteenth-century self-mastery literature and is not evidence that circumstance is irrelevant.

The Analects of Confucius, James Legge’s public-domain English translation; Book XV contrasts inward self-examination with dependence on others.

Solitude of Self, address delivered January 18, 1892; exact full-text witness reviewed on Wikisource. Stanton opens her central argument by shifting from familiar suffrage claims to 'the individuality of each human soul,' grounding political and educational equality in individual conscience, citizenship and responsibility rather than generic self-help.

Letter 92 contrasts self-sustaining virtue with happiness dependent on external props.

Darkwater, “Credo.” The passage uses Du Bois’s period language of race and lineage within a broader declaration of human brotherhood, service, justice and liberty.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; the line appears in the story’s recurring contrast between perceived deficiency and existing ability.

“The Old Stoic,” in Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell; Project Gutenberg #1019. The poem uses a deliberately severe persona and should not be treated as a complete ethical system.

Self-Made Men lecture, commonly dated to 1872 in edited versions. The compact statement occurs within an argument that values self-dependence while the lecture’s opening explicitly denies that anyone is literally or completely self-made; Library of Congress manuscript materials anchor the source identity and preserve later versions.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Introduction, Project Gutenberg #3420. The frozen quotation 'I wish to persuade women to endeavour to acquire strength, both of mind and body' is a clause from a longer sentence beginning 'I earnestly wish to point out...' and continuing through Wollstonecraft's criticism of delicacy and weakness as feminine ideals. It remains eighteenth-century feminist political-moral argument rather than a modern clinical or physiological prescription.

The Souls of Black Folk, “Of Our Spiritual Strivings.” Project Gutenberg #408. The sentence follows Du Bois’s definition of double-consciousness and belongs to his analysis of Black American life under the color line.

The Joyful Wisdom, aphorism 275; Thomas Common translation.

Moral printed after “Hercules and the Wagoner” in the Townsend translation; Hercules first tells the driver to help himself.

The Madman, “My Friend”; the speaker contrasts the visible self with the quieter self that remains inaccessible.

The Professor, early first-person narration by the fictional William Crimsworth. The novel was published posthumously in 1857; the line is character narration, not Brontë autobiography.

Society and Solitude, essay “Success”; Project Gutenberg #69258. Emerson immediately explains self-trust as believing that one is here “for cause” or for a task fitted to one's constitution, while warning that it does not mean rushing into a showy feat for spectators.

The Art of Money Getting, “Avoid Debt”; Project Gutenberg #8581. This is Barnum’s forceful moral rhetoric, not a clinical claim about every debtor’s mental state.

The Victorious Attitude, opening chapter; the rhetoric is deliberately motivational and reflects early twentieth-century success literature rather than an empirical psychological claim.

On Liberty, Chapter I; Mill states the liberty principle before developing its implications for individuality and social authority.

The Power of Truth, “The Way of the Reformer.” The qualifying language about rights and duties is retained because it prevents the individualist passage from being reduced to purely self-centered advice.

Self-Reliance, in the passage beginning with Emerson’s argument for nonconformity.

How to Succeed, “Hold Up Your Head”; Marden follows a Lincoln anecdote by arguing that self-respect depends on deserving one’s own approval.

Dhammapada 157, Chapter XII “Self,” in Max Müller’s translation; the verse explicitly joins self-regard with watchfulness and ethical discipline.

Eighty Years and More (1898), Chapter XIV, “Views on Marriage and Divorce,” Project Gutenberg #11982. Stanton introduces the surrounding passage as “my latest thought on this question” from The Arena of April 1894, then argues that marriage and divorce should be judged from individual sovereignty and individual happiness. The 1898 memoir remains the represented source while the embedded 1894 article origin is preserved.

The Way to Wealth, Franklin’s compilation of Poor Richard maxims.

The Power of Truth, “The Courage to Face Ingratitude.” Project Gutenberg #56020; first published August 1902. Jordan’s standard is moral perseverance, not indifference to all criticism.

Enchiridion, section XIII, George Long translation; the advice warns against pursuing both inner discipline and external reputation.

Solitude of Self; this clause occurs inside Stanton’s argument for education, civic voice, economic opportunity, and emancipation from enforced dependence.

The Professor; fictional narration describing Frances Henri. The elevated phrasing belongs to the novel’s characterization and is not presented as a context-free statement of Brontë’s own life.

Conclusion of Walden; Thoreau argues for following one’s own measure and direction.