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

Herman Melville

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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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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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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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Only the man who says no is free
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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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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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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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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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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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Failure is the test of greatness.
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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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