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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

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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Better Family Fool Himself Husband Life Maid Man Men Old Partner Stay Woman
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
Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Rule Sleep Thinking Yourself
Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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God One Liner Silence Voice
Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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Beautiful Magic Reality Strength
In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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Friendship Oneself Security
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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Fact Incredible Reality True
As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Feeling Love Myself Nature Remote Sea
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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Belief Death Doubt Faith Food Herself Hope Religious
There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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Balloon Immortality Life Substantial
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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Lost Moments Nature Ourselves Principal Rule State Value
Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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Silence Talk Women Yourself
Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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Assumption Criticism Home Poor Warm
There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Care Enterprise Method Order True
If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Better Food World 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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