Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
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Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll Leave thy low-vaulted past Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea.
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End of the wonderful one-hoss shay. Logic is logic. Thats all I say.
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The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, The medicines of the soul.
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To reach the port of Heaven we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must sail, and not drift or lie at anchor.
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