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To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.
Man and boy, I have lived ever since I can remember.
Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues.
There is a woe that is wisdom, a woe that is madness.
We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls.
Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in.
Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more?
Beware the People weeping When they bare the iron hand.
Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!
Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions.
To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment.
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.
contempt is as frequently produced at first sight as love.
But the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build upon.
I am past scorching; not easily can’st thou scorch a scar.
Wag the world how it will, Leaves must be green in Spring.
Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple dumpling.
Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing
Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.
Our souls belong to our bodies, not our bodies to our souls.
Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb.
Nothing may help or heal While Amor incensed remembers wrong.
He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
Leviathan is not the biggest fish; — I have heard of Krakens.
There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.
That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia.
The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
All the world over, the picturesque yields to the pocketesque.
To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes.
Nothing can lift the heart of man like manhood in a fellow man.
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain.
Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all.
Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.
The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
He who goes oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.
Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!
One would like to know, what were foes made for except to be used?