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"The stars will live for me, if not anything else."

"In so many ways we are still in the dark ages, but there is light appearing over the horizon of choice and consciousness."

"Although I am far too frequently convinced otherwise, with God a dead-end is only the death of an end."

"Hope is the little bird that continues to sing the songs of possibilities in your heart when everything else says to give up."

"It is on the canvass of the darkest storms that the brightest rainbows are painted."
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"Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land."

"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."

"Then the rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, and laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and plunging into that blackness of darkness, seemed the material counterpart of her monomaniac commander's soul."

"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 that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar."

"Ahab still stood like an anvil, receiving every shock, but without the least quivering of his own."

"There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath..."
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