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"Hope" is the thing with feathers (Poems, 1891)
Emily Dickinson Archive · c. 1861; published 1891 · poem
Read source ↗"I Have a Dream" speech, March on Washington
National Archives · 28 August 1963 · speech
Read source ↗A Tale of Two Cities
Project Gutenberg · 1859 · book
Read source ↗Apollo 11 mission transcript
NASA · 20 July 1969 · transcript
Read source ↗As You Like It
Folger Shakespeare Library · c. 1599 · play
Read source ↗Crito
Project Gutenberg · book
Read source ↗Declaration of Independence
National Archives · 4 July 1776 · document
Read source ↗Dhammapada, a Collection of Verses; Being One of the Canonical Books of the Buddhists
Project Gutenberg · book
Read source ↗Discourse on the Method
Project Gutenberg · 1637 · book
Read source ↗First Inaugural Address
National Archives · 4 March 1933 · speech
Read source ↗Gettysburg Address
Library of Congress · 19 November 1863 · speech
Read source ↗Hamlet
Folger Shakespeare Library · c. 1600 · play
Read source ↗Inaugural Address
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library · 20 January 1961 · speech
Read source ↗Indian Opinion (collected in The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, vol. 13)
Government of India, Publications Division · 8 August 1913 · article
Read source ↗Letter from Birmingham Jail
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford · 16 April 1963 · letter
Read source ↗Letter to Robert Hooke
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania · 5 February 1675/6 · letter
Read source ↗Meditations
Project Gutenberg · book
Read source ↗Phaedo
Project Gutenberg · book
Read source ↗Pride and Prejudice
Project Gutenberg · 1813 · book
Read source ↗Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Varro
Project Gutenberg · book
Read source ↗Speech to the House of Commons ("We Shall Fight on the Beaches")
International Churchill Society · 4 June 1940 · speech
Read source ↗The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics)
Project Gutenberg · book
Read source ↗The Chinese Classics — Volume 1: Confucian Analects
Project Gutenberg · book
Read source ↗The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1
Project Gutenberg · book
Read source ↗The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Otto Schulze & Company; S. C. Brown & Company · 1902 · Public-domain source
Read source ↗The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Project Gutenberg · book
Read source ↗The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 2 (of 6)
Project Gutenberg · book
Read source ↗The Road Not Taken (Mountain Interval)
Poetry Foundation · 1916 · poem
Read source ↗The Sayings of Confucius
Project Gutenberg · book
Read source ↗Theaetetus
Project Gutenberg · book
Read source ↗Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Project Gutenberg · book
Read source ↗Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works
Project Gutenberg · book
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