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- Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. — George Bernard Shaw
- He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. — Samuel Johnson
- So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. — Herman Melville
- Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. — Herman Melville
- Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? — Herman Melville