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United States
9 lines from United States, each with the edition you can check it in.
Abraham Lincoln · 16th president of the United States
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
Second Inaugural Address, final paragraph
Emily Dickinson · American poet
“Hope” is the thing with feathers — That perches in the soul —
“Hope” is the thing with feathers, lines 1–2 (J254, Fr314)
I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you — Nobody — too?
I’m Nobody! Who are you?, lines 1–2 (J288, Fr260)
Emma Lazarus · American poet
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
The New Colossus, lines 10–11
Frederick Douglass · American writer, orator and abolitionist
If there is no struggle there is no progress.
West India Emancipation, a speech, Canandaigua, New York, 3 August 1857
Henry David Thoreau · American essayist and naturalist
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
Walden, Chapter 2, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
Louisa May Alcott · American novelist
I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.
Little Women, Chapter 44
Mark Twain · American writer and humorist
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Pudd’nhead Wilson, Chapter 6, from Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar
Walt Whitman · American poet
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)
Song of Myself, in Leaves of Grass, section 51