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Failure is the test of greatness.

Herman Melville

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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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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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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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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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