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Silence is the only Voice of our God.

Herman Melville

I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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Charity Myself Oneself Prejudice Thinking
Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Animal Honor One Liner Respect
Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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Assumption Criticism Home Poor Warm
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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Assumption Criticisms Humanity Poor Rich
Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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Circle Genius Hands Recognition Round Run Shock Stand World
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
Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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Bound Home Life One Liner
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
Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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God One Liner Silence Voice
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
Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Accident Fame Merit One Liner
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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Bird Blessing Dreams Home Shelter Sick View Yourself
The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Growth Jaw Joy Sweet
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Failure Greatness Himself Man Struggle
All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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Age Crack Life Lying Reality Round Sharp World
See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Growth Love Oneself Prejudice See

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