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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

Herman Melville

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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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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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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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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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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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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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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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