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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

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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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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