Only the man who says no is free
HERMAN MELVILLEI know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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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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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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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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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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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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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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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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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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