Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
HERMAN MELVILLEBenevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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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.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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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.
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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