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.
HERMAN MELVILLEMan is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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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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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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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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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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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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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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