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Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life. A staid, ...more

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[T]here is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.

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I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must not for that very reason infallibly be faulty.

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Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee; as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe tha...more