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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.

Herman Melville

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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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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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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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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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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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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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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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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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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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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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