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My body is but the lees of my better being.

Herman Melville

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
What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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Atheist Communication Kindness Men Principle Rule Thinking
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’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
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Knowledge Ourselves Reason Wisdom
There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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Balloon Immortality Life Substantial
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?
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Born Equality Freedom Legal Men Slave Writing
Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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Dishonor Himself Respect
See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Growth Love Oneself Prejudice See
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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Belief Death Doubt Faith Food Herself Hope Religious
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
Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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Beautiful Magic Reality Strength
Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Animal Interfere Man Money
It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Hard Knowledge Limitation Subject
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
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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Animal Dog Help Ourselves Philosophy

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