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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.

Herman Melville

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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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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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You cannot hide the soul.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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Only the man who says no is free
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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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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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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