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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.

Herman Melville

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
Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Attitude Fate Laughter Life Myself Path
There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Gentle Hide Known Mystery Sea Soul Sweet Talk
What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Application Feeling Man Opinion Play Truth Universal
All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Age Crack Life Lying Reality Round Sharp World
Only the man who says no is free
HERMAN MELVILLE

Freedom Man One Liner
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.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Art Greatness Growth Known Life Master Old Wisdom Work
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Better Failure Limitation Original Success
One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Awake Cool Man Morning One Liner Wisdom
I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Coast Love Myself Sea Travel Unknown
An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Coward Dangerous Fear Friendship Man
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Compromise Edge Ragged Truth
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.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Beautiful Magic Reality Strength
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
You cannot hide the soul.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Hide One Liner Soul
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.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Blood Nation Whole World Yourself
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.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Down Draw Land Magic Men Sea Stream Water
Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Animal Interfere Man Money
There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Care Enterprise Method Order True
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
HERMAN MELVILLE

Myself Path Purpose Run Soul
I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Charity Myself Oneself Prejudice Thinking
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.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Forever Free Future Government Past Religious Stand
They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Dignity Leisure Life Success Talk Work
for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
HERMAN MELVILLE

Earth Enemy Madness Man
As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Feeling Love Myself Nature Remote Sea
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
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Failure Greatness Himself Man Struggle

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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