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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.

Herman Melville

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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Beautiful Magic Reality Strength
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
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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Mistake Set Sign Strength Talk Way Weakness
Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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Heaven Mercy Need Repair Sadness
Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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Assumption Criticism Home Poor Warm
Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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Forever Marriage Meditation One Liner Water
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Book Produce Theme
Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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Silence Talk Women Yourself
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Failure Greatness Himself Man Struggle
There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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Contrast Existence Quality World
There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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Balloon Immortality Life Substantial
You cannot hide the soul.
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Hide One Liner Soul
Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Animal Interfere Man Money
Only the man who says no is free
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Freedom Man One Liner
Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Attitude Fate Laughter Life Myself Path
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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Forever Free Future Government Past Religious Stand

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