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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

Herman Melville

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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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