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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

Herman Melville

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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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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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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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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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Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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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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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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