work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5361,"","Looking up ""Sterling"" in the OED",2005-05-20 00:00:00 UTC,If they had made no impression upon his heart,,14362,"","""If they had made no impression upon his heart""",Impression,2009-09-14 19:40:42 UTC,""
7126,"",Searching at UVa E-text Center,2011-11-01 18:31:58 UTC,"This they would sing, as a chorus, to words which to many would seem unmeaning jargon, but which, nevertheless, were full of meaning to themselves. I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character of slavery, than the reading of whole volumes of philosophy on the subject could do.
(p. 14)",,19316,"","""I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character of slavery, than the reading of whole volumes of philosophy on the subject could do.""","",2011-11-01 18:31:58 UTC,Chapter II
8225,"",Reading,2017-07-31 16:57:33 UTC,"You can't transform mountebanks into menschen. Character is like concrete: You can make an impression when it's freshly poured, in its youth, one could say, but when it sets, it's impervious to alteration. Trump has always been vile, dishonorable and dishonest. That hasn't changed even when draped by the history, majesty and pageantry of the presidency.",,25084,"","""Character is like concrete: You can make an impression when it's freshly poured, in its youth, one could say, but when it sets, it's impervious to alteration.""","",2017-07-31 16:57:33 UTC,""
8363,"",Reading,2023-09-11 16:27:45 UTC,"I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one. It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves. I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or six years since I trod it, it is still quite distinct. It is true, I fear that others may have fallen into it, and so helped to keep it open. The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity! I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.",,25330,"","""The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels.""","",2023-09-11 16:27:45 UTC,""