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" There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities. "
Herman Melville
Forever
Special
Touch
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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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" 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 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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" There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid. "
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" There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is. "
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" At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect. "
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" A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. "
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" There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay. "
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Some
" There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method. "
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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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Purple
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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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" Art is the objectification of feeling. "
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Art
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" To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another. "
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Another
Oftentimes
" Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow. "
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Live
Know
" Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. "
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Her
Struggle
Soul
" I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge. "
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Am
Handsome
" 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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Living
Know
" Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. "
Herman Melville
Age
Life
Always
" 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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You
Theme
Book
" Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. "
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Christian
Than
" Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. "
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Like
Dead
Faith
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Hot
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Never
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Afraid
Doing
" Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. "
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Children
Best
" Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation. "
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Strength
Weak
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" Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish? "
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Strange
Accomplish