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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

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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Command Convince God Hard Persuade Remember
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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Book Brain Criticism Man Rate Safety
Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Better Choice Drink Sleep Sober
Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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Circle Genius Hands Recognition Round Run Shock Stand World
We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Alone Live Nature Ourselves
Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Dreams One Liner True Youth
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Friendship Love Sight Truth
Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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Silence Talk Women Yourself
for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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Earth Enemy Madness Man
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
I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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Easy Life Man Myself Way Youth
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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Horror Life Ocean Surround
Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Animal Interfere Man Money
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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Forever Free Future Government Past Religious Stand
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
Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Glide Monster Stars Universe

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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