Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.
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For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.Herman Melville
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
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No mercy, no power but its own controls it. Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.
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He says NO in thunder but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.
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There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.
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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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