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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

Herman Melville

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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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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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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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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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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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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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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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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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