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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.

Herman Melville

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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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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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Failure is the test of greatness.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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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.
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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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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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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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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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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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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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