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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.

Herman Melville

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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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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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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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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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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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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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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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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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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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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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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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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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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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