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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.

Herman Melville

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
Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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Mistake Set Sign Strength Talk Way Weakness
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
I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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Easy Life Man Myself Way Youth
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Knowledge Ourselves Reason Wisdom
I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Come Known Laughter Myself Willing
Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Accomplishment Habit Inspirational Strange
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
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Connection Leaving Ourselves Togetherness
I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Coast Love Myself Sea Travel Unknown
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
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
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
My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Better Body Myself
They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Dignity Leisure Life Success Talk Work
Nature is nobody’s ally.
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Friendship Nature One Liner

There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.

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