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.
HERMAN MELVILLE
I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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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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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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Only the man who says no is free
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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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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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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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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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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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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