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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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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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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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Failure is the test of greatness.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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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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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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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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