It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
HERMAN MELVILLEMeditation and water are wedded for ever.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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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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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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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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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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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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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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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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Only the man who says no is free
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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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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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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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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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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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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