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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

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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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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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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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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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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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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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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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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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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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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.
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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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