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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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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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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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