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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.

Herman Melville

My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Better Body Myself
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 no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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Contrast Existence Quality World
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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Age Death Life Man Old Wake Up
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
We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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Below Further Future Hope Past Present Reach Scale
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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Assumption Criticisms Humanity Poor Rich
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
I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Coast Love Myself Sea Travel Unknown
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Draw Map One Liner Place True
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
A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Behavior Human Myself Study Theory
Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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Forever Marriage Meditation One Liner Water
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
for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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Earth Enemy Madness Man
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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Animal Dog Help Ourselves Philosophy

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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