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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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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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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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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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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 smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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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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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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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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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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