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

Herman Melville

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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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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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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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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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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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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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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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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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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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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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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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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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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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Failure is the true test of greatness
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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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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