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

Herman Melville

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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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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 love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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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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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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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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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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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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