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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.

Herman Melville

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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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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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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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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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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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