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Misattributions and Misquotations

5/6/2022

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“Quotations” Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont - Misattributions and Misquotations
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George Eliot
 
Misattribution:
“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, possibly also known as Marian Evans Cross (1819 - 1880))
“Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, possibly also known as Marian Evans Cross (1819 - 1880))

Misattribution:

Friendship
Oh, the comfort -
the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person -
having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words,
but pouring them all right out,
just as they are,
chaff and grain together;
certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them,
keep what is worth keeping,
and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
by Author Unknown: as published in Hazel Felleman, editor: “The Best Loved Poems of the American People” (1936)
 
Correct attribution:
“Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.” -Dinah Maria Craik: “A Life for a Life” (1859), chapter 16
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read the Words of Dinah Maria Craik article.
 
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
Misattribution:
“To be nobody but yourself in a world that’s doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.” -E. E. Cummings (Edward Estlin Cummings (1894 - 1962))
 
Correct attribution:
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
 
Misattribution:
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
 
Misattribution: 
“What lies beyond us and what lies before us are tiny matters when compared to what lies within us.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
 
Correct attribution:
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” -Henry S. Haskins (Henry Stanley Haskins (1875 - 1940)): as quoted in Albert Jay Nock, editor: “Meditations in Wall Street” (1940)
, book originally published anonymously
 
Misattribution:
“To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - that is to have succeeded.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
 
Correct attribution:
Success
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much;
Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men, and the love of little children;
Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;
Who has never lacked appreciation of Earth’s beauty or failed to express it;
Who has left the world better than he found it,
Whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;
Who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had;
Whose life was an inspiration;
Whose memory a benediction.
by Caroline Elizabeth ‘Bessie’ Stanley (1879 - 1952) (1904)
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read the “Success” by Caroline Elizabeth ‘Bessie’ Stanley article.
 
Misattribution:
“I will not follow where the path may lead; instead I will go where there is no path and leave a trail.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
 
Correct attribution:
“I will not follow where the path may lead; instead I will go where there is no path and leave a trail.” -Muriel Strode (1875 - 1964): “My Little Book of Prayer” (1905), page 11
 
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Nelson Henderson
 
Misattribution:
“The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” -Nelson Henderson (1865 - 1943)
 
Correct attribution:
“The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” -Nelson Henderson (1894 - 1976): as quoted in Wes Henderson (Wesley Erwin ‘Wes’ Henderson (1928 - 2003)): “Under Whose Shade: A Story of a Pioneer in the Swan River Valley of Manitoba” (1986)
 
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Abraham Lincoln
 
Misattribution:
“Whatever you are, be a good one.” -Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
 
Correct attribution:
“Whatever you are, try to be a good one.” -William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863): as quoted in Laurence Hutton’s memoir, ‘A Boy I Once Knew,’ serialized in “St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks” (March 1897), Volume 24, Number 5, page 413, column 2; also in Laurence Hutton: “A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs” (1898), autobiography
 
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George Bernard Shaw
 
Misattribution:
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” -George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
 
Correct attribution:
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” -Charles F. Brannan (Charles Franklin Brannan (1903 - 1992))
 
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Teresa of Calcutta also known as Mother Teresa
 
Misattribution:
“There is a light in this world. A healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometime lose sight of this force when there is suffering, and too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways.” -Teresa of Calcutta (also known as Mother Teresa (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (1910 - 1997)))
 
Correct attribution:
“There is a light in this world. A healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometime lose sight of this force when there is suffering, and too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways.” -Richard Attenborough (Richard Samuel Attenborough (1923 - 2014))
 
Misattribution:
“People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, People may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, People may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, They may be jealous; Be happy anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you’ve got anyway. You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; It was never between you and them anyway.” -Teresa of Calcutta (also known as Mother Teresa (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (1910 - 1997)))
(The above is an unauthorized adaptation attributed by an unknown person to Teresa of Calcutta of the copyrighted, “Paradoxical Commandments” by Kent M. Keith (born 1949), the correct text is shown at https://www.kentmkeith.com/paradoxicalcommandments)
 
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Zig Ziglar
 
Misattribution:
“Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.” -Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton ‘Zig’ Ziglar (1926 - 2012))
 
Correct attribution:
“Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.” -Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893): as quoted in Elizabeth Peabody: “Primary Education” (1916)
 
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