An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
HERMAN MELVILLEOne of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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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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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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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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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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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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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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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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