The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
HERMAN MELVILLEDo not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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Only the man who says no is free
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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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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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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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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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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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