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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.

Herman Melville

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
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Knowledge Ourselves Reason Wisdom
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
Nature is nobody’s ally.
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Friendship Nature One Liner
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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Earth Enemy Madness Man
There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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Contrast Existence Quality World
All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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Command Convince God Hard Persuade Remember
Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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Forever Marriage Meditation One Liner Water
For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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Horror Life Ocean Surround
In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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Friendship Oneself Security
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
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
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
Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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Bound Home Life One Liner
They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Dignity Leisure Life Success Talk Work
The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Death Infidelity Live Man Vote

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