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Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.

Herman Melville

Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Beyond Desire Event Fulfill Point Remedy
The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Death Deep Herself Laws Life Nature Power
Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Heaven Mercy Need Repair Sadness
A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Evidence Hard Himself Man Mouth Science Thinking True Understand
Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Better Choice Drink Sleep Sober
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Draw Map One Liner Place True
For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Horror Life Ocean Surround
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Age Death Life Man Old Wake Up
Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Accident Fame Merit One Liner
The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Growth Jaw Joy Sweet
All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Command Convince God Hard Persuade Remember
Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Silence Talk Women Yourself
You cannot hide the soul.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Hide One Liner Soul
Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Better Family Fool Himself Husband Life Maid Man Men Old Partner Stay Woman
All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Deep Earth Effort Ground Herself Mindset Thinking
Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Dreams One Liner True Youth

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