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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

Herman Melville

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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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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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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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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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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, 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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