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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.

Herman Melville

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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Earth Enemy Madness Man
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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Art Greatness Growth Known Life Master Old Wisdom Work
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
Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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Bird Blessing Dreams Home Shelter Sick View Yourself
I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Come Known Laughter Myself Willing
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.
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Deep Earth Effort Ground Herself Mindset Thinking
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Better Failure Limitation Original Success
Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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Beautiful Magic Reality Strength
Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Attitude Fate Laughter Life Myself Path
I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Friendship Hallow Myself Religion Shallow
Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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Forever Marriage Meditation One Liner Water
There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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Down Draw Land Magic Men Sea Stream Water
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Friendship Love Sight Truth
The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Death Deep Herself Laws Life Nature Power
Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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God One Liner Silence Voice
The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Growth Jaw Joy Sweet

When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.

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