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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.

Herman Melville

Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Attitude Fate Laughter Life Myself Path
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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Better Family Fool Himself Husband Life Maid Man Men Old Partner Stay Woman
All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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Command Convince God Hard Persuade Remember
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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Born Equality Freedom Legal Men Slave Writing
You cannot hide the soul.
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Hide One Liner Soul
Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Better Choice Drink Sleep Sober
There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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Balloon Immortality Life Substantial
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
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Friendship Love Sight Truth
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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Age Death Life Man Old Wake Up
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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Earth Enemy Madness Man
If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Better Food World Yourself
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Connection Leaving Ourselves Togetherness
In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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Friendship Oneself Security
I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Charity Myself Oneself Prejudice Thinking
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

I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.

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