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My body is but the lees of my better being.

Herman Melville

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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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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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Blood Nation Whole World Yourself
A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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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
Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Rule Sleep Thinking Yourself
We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Alone Live Nature Ourselves
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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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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Dishonor Himself Respect
Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Dreams One Liner True Youth
Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Accomplishment Habit Inspirational Strange
The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Death Infidelity Live Man Vote
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Failure Greatness Himself Man Struggle
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
The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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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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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Eyes One Liner Soul Way
Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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Bound Home Life One Liner
Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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Friendship Oneself Security

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