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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.

Herman Melville

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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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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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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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.
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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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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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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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Failure is the test of greatness.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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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.
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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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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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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.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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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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