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My body is but the lees of my better being.

Herman Melville

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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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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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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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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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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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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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