Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
HERMAN MELVILLEDo not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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