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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

Herman Melville

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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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Blind Evil Ourselves Removal Worst
The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Growth Jaw Joy Sweet
There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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Contrast Existence Quality World
Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Accident Fame Merit One Liner
When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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Hard Time Inspirational Monster Trouble Wild Yourself
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Knowledge Ourselves Reason Wisdom
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
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
Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Action One Liner Truth Word
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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Command Convince God Hard Persuade Remember
We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Alone Live Nature Ourselves
Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Animal Honor One Liner Respect
There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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Gentle Hide Known Mystery Sea Soul Sweet Talk
They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Dignity Leisure Life Success Talk Work
Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Glide Monster Stars Universe
I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Cherish Comic Greatness Myself Obligation Religious Respect
See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Growth Love Oneself Prejudice See
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.
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Age Crack Life Lying Reality Round Sharp World
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
A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Behavior Human Myself Study Theory
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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Brain Calm Cool Heart Ourselves Thinking
The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Eyes One Liner Soul Way
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
There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Care Enterprise Method Order True
A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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Book Brain Criticism Man Rate Safety
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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Assumption Criticisms Humanity Poor Rich
In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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Friendship Oneself Security

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