Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
HERMAN MELVILLEThey talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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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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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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