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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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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Book Produce Theme
I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Appearance Handsome Judgement Myself Personality
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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Break Forever Hope Loose Perish Soul Struggle
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
Nature is nobody’s ally.
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Friendship Nature One Liner
My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Better Body Myself
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
I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Friendship Hallow Myself Religion Shallow
Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Dreams One Liner True Youth
You cannot hide the soul.
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Hide One Liner Soul
Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Accident Fame Merit One Liner
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
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Compromise Edge Ragged Truth
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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Better Family Fool Himself Husband Life Maid Man Men Old Partner Stay Woman
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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Feeling Love Myself Nature Remote Sea
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
What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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Atheist Communication Kindness Men Principle Rule Thinking
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Better Failure Limitation Original Success
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Draw Map One Liner Place True
The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Growth Jaw Joy Sweet
If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Better Food World Yourself
We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Alone Live Nature Ourselves
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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Blood Nation Whole World Yourself
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
There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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Balloon Immortality Life Substantial
Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Animal Interfere Man Money

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