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- An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.
- Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking.
- And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real…
- There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.
- None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest…
- I never fancied broiling fowls; - though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully,…
- Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any…
- An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
- In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
- Thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.
- Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
- A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience…
- Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his…
- Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty. Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed…
- A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in…
- Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more? In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary? Where…
- truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what…
- Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our…
- All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn…
- The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth. So, therefore, that…
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