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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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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Cherish Comic Greatness Myself Obligation Religious Respect
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Rule Sleep Thinking Yourself
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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Application Feeling Man Opinion Play Truth Universal
The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Behavior Human Myself Study Theory
Only the man who says no is free
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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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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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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
Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Come Known Laughter Myself Willing
You cannot hide the soul.
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Hide One Liner Soul
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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Age Crack Life Lying Reality Round Sharp World
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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Animal Dog Help Ourselves Philosophy
Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Accomplishment Habit Inspirational Strange
In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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Friendship Oneself Security
for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Choice One Liner Smile Vehicle
Failure is the true test of greatness
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Dreams One Liner True Youth
The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Eyes One Liner Soul Way
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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Charming Comfortable Empty Sadness Unknown

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