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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

Herman Melville

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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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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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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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Only the man who says no is free
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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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Deep Earth Effort Ground Herself Mindset Thinking
There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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Mistake Set Sign Strength Talk Way Weakness
Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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