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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.

Herman Melville

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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Command Convince God Hard Persuade Remember
Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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Circle Genius Hands Recognition Round Run Shock Stand World
They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Dignity Leisure Life Success Talk Work
Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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Mistake Set Sign Strength Talk Way Weakness
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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Age Death Life Man Old Wake Up
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.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Deep Earth Effort Ground Herself Mindset Thinking
If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Better Food World Yourself
Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
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Beyond Desire Event Fulfill Point Remedy
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
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
When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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Born Equality Freedom Legal Men Slave Writing
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
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
Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Animal Honor One Liner Respect
Failure is the test of greatness.
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Failure Greatness One Liner
See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Growth Love Oneself Prejudice See

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