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My body is but the lees of my better being.

Herman Melville

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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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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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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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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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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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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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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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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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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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