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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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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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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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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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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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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 worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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