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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor

Herman Melville

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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Knowledge Ourselves Reason Wisdom
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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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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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
Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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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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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Friendship Hallow Myself Religion Shallow
I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Appearance Handsome Judgement Myself Personality
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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