Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

Quote by Herman Melville

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

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

Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.

Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by...

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by...

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads,...

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads,...

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she...

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she...

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

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

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man...

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man...

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being...

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being...

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll...

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll...

Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are...

Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are...

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

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

Truth is in things, and not in words.

Truth is in things, and not in words.

Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor

Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of...

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of...

So philosophers so throughly comprehend us as horses.

So philosophers so throughly comprehend us as horses.

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never.

The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never.