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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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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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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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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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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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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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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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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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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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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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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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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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Failure is the true test of greatness
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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