The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
HERMAN MELVILLEDream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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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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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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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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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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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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Failure is the test of greatness.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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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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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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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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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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You cannot hide the soul.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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