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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.

Herman Melville

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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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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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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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