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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.

Herman Melville

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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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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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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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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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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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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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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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