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" It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open. "

Herman Melville

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" To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it. "

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" They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure. "

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" Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged. "

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" The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love. "

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" There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay. "

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" A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard. "

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" Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. "

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" To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another. "

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" Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges. "

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" Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow. "

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" There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals. "

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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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" Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar? "

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" I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge. "

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" To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. "

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" Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things. "

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" To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment. "

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" There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future. "

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" Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. "

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" There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them. "

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" He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. "

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" In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. "

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" We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. "

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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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