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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

Herman Melville

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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Only the man who says no is free
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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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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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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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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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