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

Herman Melville

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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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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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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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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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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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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.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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