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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

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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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Application Feeling Man Opinion Play Truth Universal
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Hard Knowledge Limitation Subject
I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Coast Love Myself Sea Travel Unknown
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
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.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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Failure Greatness One Liner
Failure is the true test of greatness
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Be You Entrepreneur Failure Great Greatness Hope Man Men One Liner Original Test Tests True Young
The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Death Infidelity Live Man Vote
I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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Charity Myself Oneself Prejudice Thinking
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Connection Leaving Ourselves Togetherness
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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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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Animal Dog Help Ourselves Philosophy
Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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Forever Marriage Meditation One Liner Water
The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Eyes One Liner Soul Way
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Dreams One Liner True Youth
Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Accident Fame Merit One Liner
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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Horror Life Ocean Surround
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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Brain Calm Cool Heart Ourselves Thinking
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Book Produce Theme
Only the man who says no is free
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Freedom Man One Liner
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
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

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