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

Herman Melville

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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Heaven Mercy Need Repair Sadness
The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Man Material Poor
I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Come Known Laughter Myself Willing
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
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
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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Lost Moments Nature Ourselves Principal Rule State Value
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
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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Brain Calm Cool Heart Ourselves Thinking
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Compromise Edge Ragged Truth
See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Growth Love Oneself Prejudice See
Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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Assumption Criticism Home Poor Warm
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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Age Crack Life Lying Reality Round Sharp World
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.
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Blood Nation Whole World Yourself
Nature is nobody’s ally.
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Friendship Nature One Liner
Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Accident Fame Merit One Liner
Failure is the test of greatness.
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Failure Greatness One Liner

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