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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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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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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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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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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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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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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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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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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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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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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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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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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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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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