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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.

Herman Melville

Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Animal Honor One Liner Respect
The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Growth Jaw Joy Sweet
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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Charming Comfortable Empty Sadness Unknown
Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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Forever Marriage Meditation One Liner Water
Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Accident Fame Merit One Liner
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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Myself Path Purpose Run Soul
A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Choice One Liner Smile Vehicle
We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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Below Further Future Hope Past Present Reach Scale
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Book Produce Theme
All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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Deep Earth Effort Ground Herself Mindset Thinking
See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Growth Love Oneself Prejudice See
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Friendship Love Sight Truth
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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Forever Free Future Government Past Religious Stand
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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Dumb Evolution Face Infinite Space Surface Talk Time
Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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Silence Talk Women Yourself
It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Hard Knowledge Limitation Subject

Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.

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