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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.

Herman Melville

The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Death Deep Herself Laws Life Nature Power
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
Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Accident Fame Merit One Liner
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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Age Death Life Man Old Wake Up
Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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Mistake Set Sign Strength Talk Way Weakness
The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Growth Jaw Joy Sweet
It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Hard Knowledge Limitation Subject
Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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Heaven Mercy Need Repair Sadness
Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Accomplishment Habit Inspirational Strange
Only the man who says no is free
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Freedom Man One Liner
Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Glide Monster Stars Universe
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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Forever Free Future Government Past Religious Stand
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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Fact Incredible Reality True
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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Myself Path Purpose Run Soul
Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Friendship Help Illusion One Liner
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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Earth Enemy Madness Man

You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.

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