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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.

Herman Melville

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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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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.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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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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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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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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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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Failure is the test of greatness.
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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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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Only the man who says no is free
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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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.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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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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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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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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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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