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

Herman Melville

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We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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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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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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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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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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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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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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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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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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