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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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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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Application Feeling Man Opinion Play Truth Universal
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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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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Fact Incredible Reality True
We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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Hide One Liner Soul
Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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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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Circle Genius Hands Recognition Round Run Shock Stand World
If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Better Food World Yourself
You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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Blood Nation Whole World Yourself
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
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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Age Crack Life Lying Reality Round Sharp World
Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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Lost Moments Nature Ourselves Principal Rule State Value

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