A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
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Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer's. For the sea is his he owns it . . .Herman Melville
It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.
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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.
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I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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No mercy, no power but its own controls it. Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.
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