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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.

Herman Melville

The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Death Infidelity Live Man Vote
Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Bird Blessing Dreams Home Shelter Sick View Yourself
They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Dignity Leisure Life Success Talk Work
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Fact Incredible Reality True
There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Gentle Hide Known Mystery Sea Soul Sweet Talk
As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Feeling Love Myself Nature Remote Sea
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.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Blood Nation Whole World Yourself
I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Friendship Hallow Myself Religion Shallow
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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Dumb Evolution Face Infinite Space Surface Talk Time
We cannot live for ourselves alone.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Alone Live Nature Ourselves
There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
HERMAN MELVILLE

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
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Compromise Edge Ragged Truth
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.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Assumption Criticisms Humanity Poor Rich
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
You cannot hide the soul.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Hide One Liner Soul

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