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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

Herman Melville

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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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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Behavior Human Myself Study Theory
Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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Only the man who says no is free
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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You cannot hide the soul.
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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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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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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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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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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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Failure is the test of greatness.
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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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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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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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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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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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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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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Come Known Laughter Myself Willing
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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Below Further Future Hope Past Present Reach Scale

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