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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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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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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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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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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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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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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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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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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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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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