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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.

Herman Melville

Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Action One Liner Truth Word
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.
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Down Draw Land Magic Men Sea Stream Water
There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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Charming Comfortable Empty Sadness Unknown
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
The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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Blind Evil Ourselves Removal Worst
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Better Failure Limitation Original Success
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
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
Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Better Choice Drink Sleep Sober
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
A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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Evidence Hard Himself Man Mouth Science Thinking True Understand
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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Animal Dog Help Ourselves Philosophy
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
See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Growth Love Oneself Prejudice See
Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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Bird Blessing Dreams Home Shelter Sick View Yourself
for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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Earth Enemy Madness Man

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