The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
HERMAN MELVILLEThe poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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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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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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