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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.

Herman Melville

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Book Produce Theme
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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Animal Dog Help Ourselves Philosophy
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Friendship Love Sight Truth
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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Age Death Life Man Old Wake Up
Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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Heaven Mercy Need Repair Sadness
We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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Below Further Future Hope Past Present Reach Scale
Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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Assumption Criticism Home Poor Warm
If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Better Food World Yourself
Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Art Feeling Objectification One Liner
My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Better Body Myself
Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Accident Fame Merit One Liner
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
I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Come Known Laughter Myself Willing
Nature is nobody’s ally.
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Friendship Nature One Liner
The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Man Material Poor
Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
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Beyond Desire Event Fulfill Point Remedy

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