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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.

Herman Melville

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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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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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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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