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Failure is the test of greatness.

Herman Melville

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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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Come Known Laughter Myself Willing
Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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Bound Home Life One Liner
See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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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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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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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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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Connection Leaving Ourselves Togetherness
Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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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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Age Death Life Man Old Wake Up
The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Man Material Poor
My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Better Body Myself
I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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Charity Myself Oneself Prejudice Thinking
It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Hard Knowledge Limitation Subject
Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Rule Sleep Thinking Yourself

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