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

Herman Melville

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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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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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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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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Only the man who says no is free
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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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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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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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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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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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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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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You cannot hide the soul.
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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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