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

Herman Melville

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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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Age Death Life Man Old Wake Up
Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Accomplishment Habit Inspirational Strange
See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Growth Love Oneself Prejudice See
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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Belief Death Doubt Faith Food Herself Hope Religious
Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Rule Sleep Thinking Yourself
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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Break Forever Hope Loose Perish Soul Struggle
Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Better Choice Drink Sleep Sober
Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Glide Monster Stars Universe
A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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Evidence Hard Himself Man Mouth Science Thinking True Understand
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Compromise Edge Ragged Truth
The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Man Material Poor
Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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Dumb Evolution Face Infinite Space Surface Talk Time
A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Choice One Liner Smile Vehicle
Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Animal Interfere Man Money
Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Animal Honor One Liner Respect
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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Book Brain Criticism Man Rate Safety
In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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Friendship Oneself Security
I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Appearance Handsome Judgement Myself Personality
There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Care Enterprise Method Order True
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
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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Lost Moments Nature Ourselves Principal Rule State Value
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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Age Crack Life Lying Reality Round Sharp World
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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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Knowledge Ourselves Reason Wisdom
As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Feeling Love Myself Nature Remote Sea
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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Atheist Communication Kindness Men Principle Rule Thinking
An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Coward Dangerous Fear Friendship Man

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