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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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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
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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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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Hard Time Inspirational Monster Trouble Wild Yourself
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
I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Compromise Edge Ragged Truth

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