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.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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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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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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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Only the man who says no is free
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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