Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
HERMAN MELVILLEAll 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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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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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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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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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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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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