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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.

Herman Melville

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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.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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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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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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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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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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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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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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Only the man who says no is free
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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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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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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