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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

Herman Melville

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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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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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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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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