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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.

Herman Melville

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

Gentle Hide Known Mystery Sea Soul Sweet Talk
Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Accident Fame Merit One Liner
As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Feeling Love Myself Nature Remote Sea
It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Hard Knowledge Limitation Subject
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Fact Incredible Reality True
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Age Death Life Man Old Wake Up
An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Coward Dangerous Fear Friendship Man
Failure is the test of greatness.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Failure Greatness One Liner
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Compromise Edge Ragged Truth
I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Cherish Comic Greatness Myself Obligation Religious Respect
Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Heaven Mercy Need Repair Sadness
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.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Horror Life Ocean Surround
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
The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Death Deep Herself Laws Life Nature Power
There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Contrast Existence Quality World
The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Death Infidelity Live Man Vote

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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