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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.

Herman Melville

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
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

Deep Earth Effort Ground Herself Mindset Thinking
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
HERMAN MELVILLE

Myself Path Purpose Run Soul
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 sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Growth Jaw Joy Sweet
In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Friendship Oneself Security
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
HERMAN MELVILLE

Lost Moments Nature Ourselves Principal Rule State Value
All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Age Crack Life Lying Reality Round Sharp World
Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Fear Ignorance One Liner Parenting
Only the man who says no is free
HERMAN MELVILLE

Freedom Man One Liner
Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Better Choice Drink Sleep Sober
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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Forever Free Future Government Past Religious Stand
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
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Fact Incredible Reality True
What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Application Feeling Man Opinion Play Truth Universal
for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
HERMAN MELVILLE

Earth Enemy Madness Man

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