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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

We cannot live for ourselves alone.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Alone Live Nature Ourselves
Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Rule Sleep Thinking Yourself
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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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
I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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Easy Life Man Myself Way Youth
We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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Below Further Future Hope Past Present Reach Scale
Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Attitude Fate Laughter Life Myself Path
If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Better Food World Yourself
There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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Balloon Immortality Life Substantial
There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Care Enterprise Method Order True
When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Hard Time Inspirational Monster Trouble Wild Yourself
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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Charming Comfortable Empty Sadness Unknown
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.
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Horror Life Ocean Surround
Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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Forever Marriage Meditation One Liner Water
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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Age Death Life Man Old Wake Up
The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Man Material Poor

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.

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