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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.

Herman Melville

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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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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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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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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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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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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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