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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

Herman Melville

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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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Earth Enemy Madness Man
What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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Myself Path Purpose Run Soul
All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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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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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Coast Love Myself Sea Travel Unknown
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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Horror Life Ocean Surround
The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Accomplishment Habit Inspirational Strange
Failure is the true test of greatness
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Care Enterprise Method Order True
Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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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
You cannot hide the soul.
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Hide One Liner Soul
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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