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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

Herman Melville

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
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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Belief Death Doubt Faith Food Herself Hope Religious
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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Mistake Set Sign Strength Talk Way Weakness
Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Rule Sleep Thinking Yourself
I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Friendship Hallow Myself Religion Shallow
Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Art Feeling Objectification One Liner
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
There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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Charming Comfortable Empty Sadness Unknown
Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Animal Interfere Man Money
Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Friendship Help Illusion One Liner
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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Age Crack Life Lying Reality Round Sharp World
I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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Charity Myself Oneself Prejudice Thinking
Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Accident Fame Merit One Liner
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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Fact Incredible Reality True
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
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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Below Further Future Hope Past Present Reach Scale

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

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