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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.

Herman Melville

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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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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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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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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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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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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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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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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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Bound Home Life One Liner
In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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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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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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Blood Nation Whole World Yourself

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