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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.

Herman Melville

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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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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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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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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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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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Only the man who says no is free
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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