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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Herman Melville

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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Alone Live Nature Ourselves
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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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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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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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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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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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Better Choice Drink Sleep Sober
Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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