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

Herman Melville

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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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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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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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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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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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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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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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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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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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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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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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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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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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