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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Herman Melville

Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Rule Sleep Thinking Yourself
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
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
A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Choice One Liner Smile Vehicle
See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Growth Love Oneself Prejudice See
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
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
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Better Failure Limitation Original Success
In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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Friendship Oneself Security
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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Down Draw Land Magic Men Sea Stream Water
I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Appearance Handsome Judgement Myself Personality
Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Dreams One Liner True Youth
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
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
Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Animal Honor One Liner Respect
What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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Application Feeling Man Opinion Play Truth Universal

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

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