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Noble disappointment, noble self-denial are not to be admired, not even to be pardoned, if they bring bitterness. It is one thing to enter the kingdom of heaven maim; another to maim yourself and stay without.
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...with a strong strong glow of courage, drank off the potion.
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Don't you know Poole, you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?
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There was something strange in my sensations, indescribably new and incredibly sweet. I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be tenfold more wicked and the thought delighted me like wine.
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To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find is an honest friend. He is a fortunate voyager who finds many.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!
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I was still cursed with my duality of purpose.
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