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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.

Herman Melville

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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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Fact Incredible Reality True
Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Accident Fame Merit One Liner
I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Cherish Comic Greatness Myself Obligation Religious Respect
Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Accomplishment Habit Inspirational Strange
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
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Compromise Edge Ragged Truth
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
The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Death Deep Herself Laws Life Nature Power
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Failure Greatness Himself Man Struggle
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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Feeling Love Myself Nature Remote Sea
The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Death Infidelity Live Man Vote
There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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Balloon Immortality Life Substantial
Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Attitude Fate Laughter Life Myself Path
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
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

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