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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.

Herman Melville

One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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Awake Cool Man Morning One Liner Wisdom
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Failure Greatness Himself Man Struggle
In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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Friendship Oneself Security
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
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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Assumption Criticisms Humanity Poor Rich
There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Care Enterprise Method Order True
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
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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Lost Moments Nature Ourselves Principal Rule State Value
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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Forever Free Future Government Past Religious Stand
We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Alone Live Nature Ourselves
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Compromise Edge Ragged Truth
Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Better Choice Drink Sleep Sober
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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Easy Life Man Myself Way Youth
Only the man who says no is free
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Freedom Man One Liner
All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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Deep Earth Effort Ground Herself Mindset Thinking
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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Bird Blessing Dreams Home Shelter Sick View Yourself

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