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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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You cannot hide the soul.
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Hide One Liner Soul
For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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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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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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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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Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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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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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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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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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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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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Easy Life Man Myself Way Youth

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