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

Herman Melville

A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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Book Brain Criticism Man Rate Safety
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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Atheist Communication Kindness Men Principle Rule Thinking
Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Animal Interfere Man Money
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Friendship Love Sight Truth
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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Dumb Evolution Face Infinite Space Surface Talk Time
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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Myself Path Purpose Run Soul
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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Application Feeling Man Opinion Play Truth Universal
There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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Charming Comfortable Empty Sadness Unknown
There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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Contrast Existence Quality World
The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Death Deep Herself Laws Life Nature Power
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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Fact Incredible Reality True
I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Come Known Laughter Myself Willing
Only the man who says no is free
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Freedom Man One Liner
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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Art Greatness Growth Known Life Master Old Wisdom Work
I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Cherish Comic Greatness Myself Obligation Religious Respect
I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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Charity Myself Oneself Prejudice Thinking

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