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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.

Herman Melville

All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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Command Convince God Hard Persuade Remember
One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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Awake Cool Man Morning One Liner Wisdom
A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Choice One Liner Smile Vehicle
I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Cherish Comic Greatness Myself Obligation Religious Respect
Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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God One Liner Silence Voice
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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Assumption Criticisms Humanity Poor Rich
A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Behavior Human Myself Study Theory
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 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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Blood Nation Whole World Yourself
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
I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Come Known Laughter Myself Willing
The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Man Material Poor
I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Coast Love Myself Sea Travel Unknown
My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Better Body Myself
All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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Deep Earth Effort Ground Herself Mindset Thinking
In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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Friendship Oneself Security

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