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

Herman Melville

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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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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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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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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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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