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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

Herman Melville

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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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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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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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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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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.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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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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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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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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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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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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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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