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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.

Herman Melville

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
Failure is the test of greatness.
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Failure Greatness One Liner
The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Death Deep Herself Laws Life Nature Power
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
HERMAN MELVILLE

Myself Path Purpose Run Soul
Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Rule Sleep Thinking Yourself
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
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.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Horror Life Ocean Surround
What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Application Feeling Man Opinion Play Truth Universal
There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Balloon Immortality Life Substantial
What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
HERMAN MELVILLE

Atheist Communication Kindness Men Principle Rule Thinking
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Draw Map One Liner Place True
If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Better Food World Yourself
My body is but the lees of my better being.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Better Body Myself
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
When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Hard Time Inspirational Monster Trouble Wild Yourself
A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Evidence Hard Himself Man Mouth Science Thinking True Understand

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