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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.

Herman Melville

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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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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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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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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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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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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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