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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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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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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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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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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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Failure is the true test of greatness
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You cannot hide the soul.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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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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