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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

Herman Melville

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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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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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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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