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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.

Herman Melville

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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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Better Family Fool Himself Husband Life Maid Man Men Old Partner Stay Woman
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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Myself Path Purpose Run Soul
Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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God One Liner Silence Voice
A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Choice One Liner Smile Vehicle
I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Appearance Handsome Judgement Myself Personality
Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Action One Liner Truth Word
Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Fear Ignorance One Liner Parenting
Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Glide Monster Stars Universe
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
We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Alone Live Nature Ourselves
In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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Friendship Oneself Security
Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Animal Honor One Liner Respect
It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Hard Knowledge Limitation Subject
I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Come Known Laughter Myself Willing
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
All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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Deep Earth Effort Ground Herself Mindset Thinking
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Knowledge Ourselves Reason Wisdom
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
I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Coast Love Myself Sea Travel Unknown
I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Cherish Comic Greatness Myself Obligation Religious Respect
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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Atheist Communication Kindness Men Principle Rule Thinking
There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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Gentle Hide Known Mystery Sea Soul Sweet Talk
Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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Beautiful Magic Reality Strength
There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Care Enterprise Method Order True
Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Rule Sleep Thinking Yourself
The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Death Infidelity Live Man Vote
The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Growth Jaw Joy Sweet

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