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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.

Herman Melville

Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Action One Liner Truth Word
When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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Hard Time Inspirational Monster Trouble Wild Yourself
An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Coward Dangerous Fear Friendship Man
I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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Easy Life Man Myself Way Youth
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
What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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Atheist Communication Kindness Men Principle Rule Thinking
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Compromise Edge Ragged Truth
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Friendship Love Sight Truth
Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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Assumption Criticism Home Poor Warm
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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Feeling Love Myself Nature Remote Sea
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
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
The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Death Deep Herself Laws Life Nature Power
There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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Contrast Existence Quality World
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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Art Greatness Growth Known Life Master Old Wisdom Work
Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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Dishonor Himself Respect

There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.

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