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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.

Herman Melville

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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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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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