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

Herman Melville

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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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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Draw Map One Liner Place True
You cannot hide the soul.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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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
I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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Easy Life Man Myself Way Youth
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
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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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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