1862 · Skopia

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1862

★ 7.0

Speech · Political speech

The destiny of the colored American…is the destiny of America.

Frederick Douglass

1862

★ 6.3

Novel

The vague, crepuscular time; the time of regrets that resemble hopes, of hopes that resemble regrets, when youth has passed, but old age has not yet arrived.

Ivan Turgenev

Fathers and Sons · 1862

★ 6.1

Speech · Political speech

Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

Abraham Lincoln

1862

★ 5.5

Political literature

I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.

Abraham Lincoln

Emancipation Proclamation · 1862

★ 5.5

Essay · Magazine

If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down!

Henry David Thoreau

Life Without Principle · 1862

★ 5.3

Novel

It is not the prize that can make us happy; it is not even the winning of the prize....[It is] the struggle, the long hot hour of the honest fight.... There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

Anthony Trollope

Orley Farm · 1862

★ 4.3

Novel

Take away time is money, and what is left of England? Take away cotton is king, and what is left of America?

Victor Hugo

Les Miserables · 1862

★ 3.9

Personal journal

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time.

Abraham Lincoln

1862

★ 3.7

Poem

Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land.

Christina Rossetti

1862

★ 3.7

Novel

To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible punishment so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

House of the Dead · 1862

★ 3.7

Letter

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

George Sand

1862

★ 3.7

No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

Ulysses S. Grant

1862

★ 3.7

Speech · Political speech

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free—honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth.

Abraham Lincoln

1862

★ 3.7

Poem

For there is no friend like a sister In calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray, To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen while one stands.

Christina Rossetti

1862

★ 3.5

Novel

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Anthony Trollope

1862

★ 3.5

Novel

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers.

Victor Hugo

Les Miserables · 1862

★ 3.0

Speech · Political speech

The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.

Abraham Lincoln

Second Annual Message to Congress · 1862

★ 2.9

Novel

One is not unoccupied because one is absorbed. There is visible labor and invisible labor.

Victor Hugo

Les Miserables · 1862

★ 2.2

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.

Robert E. Lee

1862

★ 2.1

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