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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.

Herman Melville

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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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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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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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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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