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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.

Herman Melville

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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’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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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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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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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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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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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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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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