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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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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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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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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Failure is the true test of greatness
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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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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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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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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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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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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