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Ignorance is the parent of fear.

Herman Melville

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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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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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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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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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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 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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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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