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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.

Herman Melville

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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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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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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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We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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