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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.

Herman Melville

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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Rule Sleep Thinking Yourself
I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Come Known Laughter Myself Willing
Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Action One Liner Truth Word
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
The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Man Material Poor
A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Choice One Liner Smile Vehicle
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Knowledge Ourselves Reason Wisdom
Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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Assumption Criticism Home Poor Warm
The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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Blind Evil Ourselves Removal Worst
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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Horror Life Ocean Surround
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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Beautiful Magic Reality Strength
There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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Gentle Hide Known Mystery Sea Soul Sweet Talk
Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Attitude Fate Laughter Life Myself Path
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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Lost Moments Nature Ourselves Principal Rule State Value
The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Death Deep Herself Laws Life Nature Power
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Better Failure Limitation Original Success

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