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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.

Herman Melville

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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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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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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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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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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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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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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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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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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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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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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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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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