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  1. The Odyssey

    At dawn we loosed the hawsers, rowing with sorrow in our hearts—alive, yet haunted by the comrades we'd lost.
    Homer

  2. The Odyssey

    She dreams an eagle slaughters her twenty geese, then hears the bird speak—does the vision promise doom, or something else?
    Homer

  3. Essays — First Series

    If history is only private biography, which truths have you never verified for yourself?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  4. Essays — First Series

    Some speak from within the fact; others preach from without—whose voice actually changes you?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  5. The Odyssey

    They think the death was an accident; Ulysses' glare says otherwise—whose fate hangs next?
    Homer

  6. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

    The whisper that my master might be my father makes plain how a mother's condition could be turned into profit.
    John Chua

  7. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

    We passed the word: 'Own nothing'—resolved to stay together no matter if we were dragged, jailed, or sold.
    John Chua

  8. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

    Spring vanishes with the rose—where does youth's manuscript go when the song stops?
    Omar Khayyam (Ghiyāth al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīshābūrī)

  9. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

    The Nantucketer doesn't sail the sea—he lives on it, parcelling oceans as if they were his own empire.
    Herman Melville

  10. Treasure Island

    A firelit cave, a clear pool, and great heaps of gold—yet every coin seems to carry the weight of blood and ruined lives.
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  11. The Picture of Dorian Gray

    The secret of staying young? Never allow an emotion that is unbecoming.
    Oscar Wilde

  12. The Divine Comedy

    He reaches and plucks a twig from a thorn—and the trunk cries out: why do you mangle me?
    Dante Alighieri

  13. Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

    The cataract gripped him like hunger—what did the mountain give him that thought could not supply?
    Mary Shelley

  14. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    Swear to stand by the gang—even if it means killing every one of an enemy's family—what turns boys to an oath this cruel?
    Mark Twain

  15. The Picture of Dorian Gray

    Death doesn't terrify him—it's the coming of death, with monstrous wings, and a watcher among the trees.
    Oscar Wilde