- Fibers
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Map
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
- Sin
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is the objectification of feeling.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
- Nov 07, 2020
A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.
- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.
- Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth is in things, and not in words.
- Hated
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment.
- Oftentimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.
- Open
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
- Dignity
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.
- Horse
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- Nov 07, 2020