If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe 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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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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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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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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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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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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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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