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Charlotte Brontë · English novelist and poet
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
Jane Eyre, Chapter 23
Christina Rossetti · English poet
Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.
Remember, lines 13–14
Emily Brontë · English novelist and poet
No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world’s storm-troubled sphere.
No Coward Soul Is Mine, lines 1–2
Jane Austen · English novelist
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 1
John Donne · English poet and cleric
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVII
Mary Shelley · English novelist
Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.
Frankenstein, Chapter 20
Robert Burns · Scottish poet
The best-laid plans of mice and men often go wrong.
The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men, Gang aft agley,
To a Mouse, stanza 7
Planet-X translation, 2026 · Source (opens the digitised edition in a new tab)
William Shakespeare · English playwright and poet
This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2
Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em.
Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 5
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
Julius Caesar, Act 2, Scene 2