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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.

Herman Melville

A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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Fact Incredible Reality True
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
Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
HERMAN MELVILLE

Friendship Help Illusion One Liner
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Break Forever Hope Loose Perish Soul Struggle
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
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Book Produce Theme
Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Dishonor Himself Respect
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.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Beyond Desire Event Fulfill Point Remedy
Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Bound Home Life One Liner
Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Glide Monster Stars Universe
Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Accident Fame Merit One Liner
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
Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Mistake Set Sign Strength Talk Way Weakness
I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Appearance Handsome Judgement Myself Personality
Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Dreams One Liner True Youth
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

When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.

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