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

Herman Melville

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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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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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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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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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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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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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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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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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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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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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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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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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