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A complete collection of historic letters, essays, speeches, and lectures that shaped humanity.

On the Happy Life

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

6 min read · 61 years ago

On Taking One's Own Life

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

4 min read · 61 years ago

On Master and Slave

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

4 min read · 62 years ago

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Martin Luther King Jr.

2 min read · 62 years ago

On Despising Death

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

5 min read · 63 years ago

On Festivals and Fasting

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

6 min read · 63 years ago

On the Terrors of Death

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

5 min read · 63 years ago

On True Friendship

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

5 min read · 63 years ago

On the Shortness of Life

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

2 min read · 63 years ago

On the Shortness of Time

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

4 min read · 63 years ago

A Tryst With Destiny

Jawaharlal Nehru

3 min read · 78 years ago

Letter to W.E.B. Du Bois

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

1 min read · 79 years ago

Letter to Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

1 min read · 79 years ago

Some Recent Work by E. Fermi and L. Szilard

Albert Einstein

3 min read · 86 years ago

Letter to Adolf Hitler

1 min read · 86 years ago

Recovery Before Reform

John Maynard Keynes

2 min read · 92 years ago

The Economic Situation and the Gold Standard

John Maynard Keynes

3 min read · 94 years ago

Letter to B. K. Dutt

3 min read · 95 years ago

Letter to Father

3 min read · 95 years ago

Letter to B. K. Dutt's Sister

3 min read · 95 years ago

Letter to Jaidev Gupta

2 min read · 95 years ago

Letter to I.G. (Prisons), Punjab

3 min read · 96 years ago

Letter to Shaheed Sukhdev

4 min read · 96 years ago

Discovery of the Raman Effect

2 min read · 97 years ago

Striving for Swaraj

Rabindranath Tagore

20 min read · 100 years ago

The Cult of the Charka

Rabindranath Tagore

31 min read · 100 years ago

The Union of Cultures

Rabindranath Tagore

37 min read · 104 years ago

East and West in Greater India

Rabindranath Tagore

23 min read · 104 years ago

The Way to Get It Done

Rabindranath Tagore

22 min read · 104 years ago

A Cry for Peace

Rabindranath Tagore

4 min read · 104 years ago

Our Swadeshi Samaj

Rabindranath Tagore

15 min read · 104 years ago

An Open Letter to the Right Honorable Edwin Samuel Montagu

25 min read · 108 years ago

The Spirit of Japan

Rabindranath Tagore

26 min read · 108 years ago

What is Art?

Rabindranath Tagore

5 min read · 108 years ago

Nationalism in the West

Rabindranath Tagore

5 min read · 108 years ago

Japan: A Lecture

Rabindranath Tagore

6 min read · 109 years ago

Mourning Gokhale: A Letter of Grief and Dedication

2 min read · 110 years ago

India's Epic

Rabindranath Tagore

10 min read · 113 years ago

Love as the Highest Law of Life

3 min read · 115 years ago

The Law of Love - Tolstoy's Final Letter to Gandhi

7 min read · 115 years ago

Response on Indian Home Rule

1 min read · 115 years ago

Letter with Indian Home Rule

Mohandas K. Gandhi

1 min read · 115 years ago

Second Letter to Tolstoy

Mohandas K. Gandhi

3 min read · 116 years ago

First Reply to Gandhi

2 min read · 116 years ago

First Letter to Leo Tolstoy

Mohandas K. Gandhi

6 min read · 116 years ago

A Letter to a Hindu

5 min read · 117 years ago

The Evolution of Life - Mechanism and Teleology

5 min read · 118 years ago

The Joy of Living

Theodore Roosevelt

1 min read · 122 years ago

A Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury

1 min read · 123 years ago

Religion and Neurology

5 min read · 123 years ago

The Economic Drain from India

Dadabhai Naoroji

3 min read · 124 years ago

Letter to Alexander Graham Bell

4 min read · 125 years ago

Mission and Purpose in India

Sister Nivedita

2 min read · 125 years ago

De Profundis

2 min read · 128 years ago

My Ideal Indeed Can Never Be Yours

Swami Vivekananda

2 min read · 131 years ago

A New Study of a Starry Sky

Vincent van Gogh

4 min read · 136 years ago

The Crucified One

Friedrich Nietzsche

1 min read · 136 years ago

The Starry Night and the Cypress

Vincent van Gogh

2 min read · 137 years ago

Letter on Medicine and Literature

1 min read · 137 years ago

Letter to Theo about Health and Art

Vincent van Gogh

4 min read · 137 years ago

Letter to Theo about Spiritual Crisis and the Miners

Vincent van Gogh

5 min read · 147 years ago

Letter to Theo about Theological Studies

Vincent van Gogh

4 min read · 148 years ago

Letter to Mrs. Bixby

Abraham Lincoln

1 min read · 161 years ago

The Gettysburg Address

Abraham Lincoln

2 min read · 162 years ago

Letter to His Mother on Choosing a Vocation

Friedrich Nietzsche

2 min read · 162 years ago

Are You Too Deeply Occupied to Say if My Verse is Alive?

Emily Dickinson

1 min read · 163 years ago

The Heart Wants What It Wants

Emily Dickinson

2 min read · 163 years ago

Walking

Henry David Thoreau

61 min read · 163 years ago

My Very Dear Wife

Sullivan Ballou

1 min read · 164 years ago

On the Origin of Species Defense

2 min read · 165 years ago

A theory most dangerous to natural theology

2 min read · 166 years ago

On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties

3 min read · 167 years ago

Master, I Am a Man Who Has Perfect Faith

4 min read · 169 years ago

I Greet You at the Beginning

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1 min read · 170 years ago

Letter from the Peter and Paul Fortress

Fyodor Dostoevsky

10 min read · 176 years ago

To My Old Master

Frederick Douglass

2 min read · 177 years ago

The Meaning of Freedom

Frederick Douglass

2 min read · 180 years ago

On the Species Question

6 min read · 181 years ago

My Darling, Darling Angel

2 min read · 182 years ago

Letter to Fanny Brawne - On Beauty and Love

5 min read · 206 years ago

Letter to Fanny Brawne - Passionate Declaration

4 min read · 206 years ago

My Bright Star

2 min read · 206 years ago

The Mansion of Many Apartments

4 min read · 207 years ago

On Beauty and Truth

3 min read · 208 years ago

Negative Capability

3 min read · 208 years ago

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

2 min read · 209 years ago

The Resurrection of Friendship

Thomas Jefferson

2 min read · 212 years ago

Pride and Prejudice Published at Last

2 min read · 212 years ago

A Letter of Reconciliation

3 min read · 213 years ago

We Have Penetrated the Continent

Meriwether Lewis

2 min read · 219 years ago

It was impossible for me to leave the world

Ludwig van Beethoven

5 min read · 223 years ago

Letter to Cassandra about 'First Impressions'

3 min read · 224 years ago

Letter to Cassandra about the Ball

4 min read · 225 years ago

I Wake Filled with Thoughts of You

Napoleon Bonaparte

1 min read · 229 years ago

Letter to Cassandra about Tom Lefroy

4 min read · 229 years ago

On Federal Authority and the Whiskey Rebellion

George Washington

3 min read · 231 years ago

My Dear Friend

Benjamin Franklin

2 min read · 241 years ago

Of Flying Machines and Human Progress

Benjamin Franklin

2 min read · 241 years ago

On the Method of Scientific Discovery

Benjamin Franklin

4 min read · 245 years ago

Remember the Ladies

2 min read · 249 years ago

On Air Baths and Health

Benjamin Franklin

3 min read · 257 years ago

The Monteagle Letter - Warning of the Gunpowder Plot

3 min read · 420 years ago

I have taken all knowledge to be my province

4 min read · 433 years ago

I Have Taken All Knowledge to be My Province

2 min read · 440 years ago

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Total Pieces

87

Letters

10

Essays

2

Speeches