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

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

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.

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.

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

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

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.

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

Art is the objectification of feeling.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

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...

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

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.

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

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

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

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...

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.

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