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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.

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.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Feeling Love Myself Nature Remote Sea
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
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Draw Map One Liner Place True
Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Dishonor Himself Respect
Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Rule Sleep Thinking Yourself
Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Beyond Desire Event Fulfill Point Remedy
When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
HERMAN MELVILLE

Born Equality Freedom Legal Men Slave Writing
Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Silence Talk Women Yourself
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.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Down Draw Land Magic Men Sea Stream Water
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
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
It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Hard Knowledge Limitation Subject
In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Friendship Oneself Security
Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Attitude Fate Laughter Life Myself Path
Art is the objectification of feeling.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Art Feeling Objectification One Liner
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

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