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Failure is the test of greatness.

Herman Melville

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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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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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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 path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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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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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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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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