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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Herman Melville

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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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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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You cannot hide the soul.
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There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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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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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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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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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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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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