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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

Herman Melville

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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
See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Growth Love Oneself Prejudice See
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
Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Art Feeling Objectification One Liner
One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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Awake Cool Man Morning One Liner Wisdom
My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Better Body Myself
Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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Forever Marriage Meditation One Liner Water
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Connection Leaving Ourselves Togetherness
You cannot hide the soul.
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Hide One Liner Soul
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 sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Growth Jaw Joy Sweet
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
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.
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Beyond Desire Event Fulfill Point Remedy
We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Alone Live Nature Ourselves
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Failure Greatness Himself Man Struggle

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