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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.

Herman Melville

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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Lost Moments Nature Ourselves Principal Rule State Value
Nature is nobody’s ally.
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Friendship Nature One Liner
My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Better Body Myself
The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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Blind Evil Ourselves Removal Worst
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Book Produce Theme
I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Friendship Hallow Myself Religion Shallow
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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Myself Path Purpose Run Soul
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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Fact Incredible Reality True
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Better Failure Limitation Original Success
The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Man Material Poor
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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Gentle Hide Known Mystery Sea Soul Sweet Talk
A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Behavior Human Myself Study Theory
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
Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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Mistake Set Sign Strength Talk Way Weakness
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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Blood Nation Whole World Yourself
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

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