There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.Herman Melville
We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world deaf to its voice and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.
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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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Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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