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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

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Compromise Edge Ragged Truth
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Knowledge Ourselves Reason Wisdom
The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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Blind Evil Ourselves Removal Worst
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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Fact Incredible Reality True
An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Coward Dangerous Fear Friendship Man
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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Age Death Life Man Old Wake Up
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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Better Family Fool Himself Husband Life Maid Man Men Old Partner Stay Woman
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Connection Leaving Ourselves Togetherness
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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Forever Free Future Government Past Religious Stand
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Failure Greatness Himself Man Struggle
Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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Mistake Set Sign Strength Talk Way Weakness
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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Heaven Mercy Need Repair Sadness
Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Dreams One Liner True Youth
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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Below Further Future Hope Past Present Reach Scale
Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Animal Interfere Man Money
Nature is nobody’s ally.
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Friendship Nature One Liner

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

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