Failure is the true test of greatness
HERMAN MELVILLEThe only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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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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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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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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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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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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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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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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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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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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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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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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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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