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

Herman Melville

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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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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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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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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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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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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 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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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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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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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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Only the man who says no is free
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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