“The Guild within two years has arrived at the point in its development where it sees itself in relation to all artists, black and white.”

Presenting artistic solidarity as something capable of reaching beyond racial boundaries · Essay, The Harlem Artists Guild, 1937

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• Society

“You were always glad to see them. You always had an exciting time when you were with them.”

Remembering the companionship and creative excitement of Harlem's artistic circles · Interview with Sandra Govan, 1979

• Art
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• Friendship

“With no motive but love for my countrymen.”

Original: Sin más opinión que el amor a mis paisanos. — This was the plain reason the fourteen-year-old gave for slipping away to fight, well before he became the voice behind the Tree of Gernika · Recollection of his 1833 flight from home to join the Basque battalions (Spanish)

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• Home
• Identity

“The pulpit is a clergyman’s parade, the parish is his field of active service.”

Contrasting public preaching with sustained practical service in a community · Letter to James White, 2 May 1814

• Care
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• Duty

“Through Sigurd our circle of fellowship was widened for all time.”

Reflecting on how companionship can enlarge one's sense of fellowship · Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road

• Animals
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• Friendship

“It was never very possible to leave Wellesley, because so many love-anchors held me there.”

Describing the human attachments that made a place feel inseparable from home · Letter to Katharine Coman, 1891

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• Home
• Love

“A great city like this is the only geography for such a character. He would be impossible in a small country town, where everybody knows everybody and what everybody has for lunch.”

Humorously contrasting the anonymity of city life with the intimate scrutiny of small communities · Ponkapog Papers, Leaves from a Note Book (1903)

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• Humour
• Society

“He lives in harmony with everyone who will be congenial to him”

Presenting fellowship rather than racial division as his personal ideal · Foreword to Plea of the Negro Soldier and a Hundred Other Poems, 1908

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• Humanity
• Peace

“For the Art of Writing is an affair as international as are all the other Arts—as International, as Co-operative and as mutually uniting.”

Writing belongs to a shared artistic tradition that crosses national borders · The English Novel

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• Writing

“For them there was only one enduring Kingdom—that of the Arts—and only one Republic that shall be everlasting: the Republic of Letters.”

Celebrating literature as an international fellowship beyond ordinary boundaries · The English Novel

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• Literature

“The individual reaches his full stature when connected with humanity.”

Original: Y mae'r dyn unigol yn ei lawn faint pan wedi ei gysylltu â dynoliaeth. — Suggesting that a person reaches fullest stature through connection with humanity · Sermon, Cyfamod Duw a Dyn (Welsh)

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“God disciplines the individual for the sake of society. God teaches the teacher for the sake of the class.”

Original: Mae Duw yn disgyblu'r unigol er mwyn y cymdeithasol. Mae Duw'n dysgu'r athro er mwyn y class. — Presenting individual development as preparation for service to others · Sermon, Cyfamod Duw a Dyn (Welsh)

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• Faith

“If the place is dry, we must open the sweet springs. If it is barren, we must search for its hidden treasures.”

Original: Os lle sych fydd yno, rhaid i ni agor y ffynhonnau melys. Os lle llwm fydd yno, rhaid i ni chwilio am ei drysorau cuddiedig. — Urging people to discover and create possibilities wherever they live · Sermon, Cyfamod Duw a Dyn (Welsh)

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• Nature

“It was a day for service, support and help.”

Original: Yr oedd y dydd yn ddydd o wasanaeth, a chymorth, a help. — Defining a sacred day through practical service to others · Sermon, Saboth gyda'r Iesu, August 1900 (Welsh)

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• Faith

“There is reason to fear that far too much preaching concerns distant things: old history, people long buried, the Jews, while our own congregations go unnoticed.”

Original: Y mae lle i ofni fod llawer iawn gormod o bregethu pell, pregethu hen hanes, pregethu am hen bobl wedi eu claddu, pregethu am yr Iddewon,—a gadael ein cynulleidfaoedd ein hunain yn ddisylw. — Warning against discussing distant faults while ignoring immediate human needs · Sermon, Ceisio Teyrnas Dduw, July 1886 (Welsh)

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• Truth

“The poets of the coal pits have been writing the deepest poetry of their hearts upon these stones in the depths below.”

Original: Y mae beirdd y pyllau glô wedi bod yn ysgrifennu barddoniaeth ddyfnaf eu calonnau ar y meini hyn yn y gwaelodion obry. — Honouring miners whose imaginative lives flourished beneath the ground · Address, National Eisteddfod Merthyr proclamation, 1900 (Welsh)

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• Poetry

“It is not an institution for teaching shorthand, but one where hands too calloused to write it can clap their applause for a song.”

Original: Nid sefydliad i ddysgu llaw-fer yw hi, ond sefydliad i ddwylaw â gormod o gyrn arnynt i ysgrifennu llaw-fer, i guro cymeradwyaeth cân. — Celebrating the Eisteddfod as a cultural home for working people · Gorsedd paper, National Eisteddfod Rhyl, 1892 (Welsh)

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• Music

“The real young men are those who have worked and sweated, and who know the people, their spirit, their ways and their needs.”

Original: Bechgyn iawn yw'r bechgyn yma sydd wedi bod yn gweithio, ac wedi bod yn chwysu, ac yn gwybod am y bobl, ac ysbryd y bobl, am ffyrdd y bobl, ac angen y bobl. — Valuing practical experience and close knowledge of ordinary people · Address, Y Paratoad Goreu ar Gyfer y Weinidogaeth, 1895 (Welsh)

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“But the younger generation, further removed from memories of war and less inclined to uncompromising partisanship, turns the old hardship into a new virtue and seeks to embrace both elements within itself, with the ideal of a future synthesis always before it.”

Original: Aber die junge Generation, der Kriegserinnerung ferner, weniger geneigt zu der Unbedingtheit ausgesprochener Parteinahme, schafft sich aus der alten Not eine neue Tugend und sucht beide Elemente in sich zu fassen, immer das Ideal einer zukünftig zu vollziehenden Synthese vor Augen. — Sets out Stadler's hope that Alsace might reconcile rather than choose between German and French cultu… · Essay, Ein Wunsch, 1911 (German)

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• Identity