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

Herman Melville

Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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Silence Talk Women Yourself
Failure is the test of greatness.
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Failure Greatness One Liner
Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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Better Family Fool Himself Husband Life Maid Man Men Old Partner Stay Woman
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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Age Death Life Man Old Wake Up
I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Coast Love Myself Sea Travel Unknown
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
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
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.
HERMAN MELVILLE

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
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Book Produce Theme
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.
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Blood Nation Whole World Yourself
Nature is nobody’s ally.
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Friendship Nature One Liner
There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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Gentle Hide Known Mystery Sea Soul Sweet Talk
There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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Contrast Existence Quality World
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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Lost Moments Nature Ourselves Principal Rule State Value
Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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Brain Calm Cool Heart Ourselves Thinking

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

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