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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.

Herman Melville

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
My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Better Body Myself
Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Better Choice Drink Sleep Sober
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
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
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Draw Map One Liner Place True
Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Accomplishment Habit Inspirational Strange
If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Better Food World Yourself
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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Art Greatness Growth Known Life Master Old Wisdom Work
A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Behavior Human Myself Study Theory
We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Alone Live Nature Ourselves
Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Glide Monster Stars Universe
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
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
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
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

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