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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.

Herman Melville

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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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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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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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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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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Only the man who says no is free
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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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