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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

Herman Melville

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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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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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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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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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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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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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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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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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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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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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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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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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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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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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