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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.

Herman Melville

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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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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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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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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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Failure is the true test of greatness
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You cannot hide the soul.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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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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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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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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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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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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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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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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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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