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Silence is the only Voice of our God.

Herman Melville

Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
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Beyond Desire Event Fulfill Point Remedy
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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Forever Free Future Government Past Religious Stand
See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Growth Love Oneself Prejudice See
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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Belief Death Doubt Faith Food Herself Hope Religious
Failure is the test of greatness.
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Failure Greatness One Liner
Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Art Feeling Objectification One Liner
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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Book Brain Criticism Man Rate Safety
Only the man who says no is free
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Freedom Man One Liner
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
Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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God One Liner Silence Voice
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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Easy Life Man Myself Way Youth
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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Break Forever Hope Loose Perish Soul Struggle
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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Myself Path Purpose Run Soul
I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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Charity Myself Oneself Prejudice Thinking
The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Death Infidelity Live Man Vote
All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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Deep Earth Effort Ground Herself Mindset Thinking

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