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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Herman Melville

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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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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.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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