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For in tremendous extremities ...

For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of that peril;--nevertheless, the sea is the sea, and these drowning men do drown.

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But when a man suspects any wr...

But when a man suspects any wrong it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself. And much this way it was with me. I said nothing and tried to think nothing.

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Where lies the final harbor, w...

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 is the foundling's father hidden? Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.

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Dollars damn me; and the malic...

Dollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar. ... What I feel most moved to write, that is banned - it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the other way I cannot. So the product is a final hash, and all my books are botches.

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There is a wisdom that is woe;...

There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.

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Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, o...

Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself; but is an errand-boy in heaven; nor one single star can revolve, but by some invisible power; how then can this one small heart beat; this one small brain think thoughts; unless God does that beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I.

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for there is no folly of the b...

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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Our souls belong to our bodies...

Our souls belong to our bodies, not our bodies to our souls.

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There is no figure more common...

There is no figure more common in scripture, and none more beautiful, than that by which Christ is likened unto light. Incomprehensible in its nature, itself the first visible, and that by which all things are seen, light represents to us Christ. Whose generation none can declare, but Who must shine upon us ere we can know aught aright, whether of things Divine or human.

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There seems no reason why patr...

There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fairmindedness should be confounded with political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered because not partisan.

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If you can get nothing better ...

If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.

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I never fancied broiling fowls...

I never fancied broiling fowls; - though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a broiled fowl than I will.

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If not against us, nature is n...

If not against us, nature is not for us.

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The most mighty of nature's la...

The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.

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We Americans are the peculiar,...

We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.

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All Profound things, and emoti...

All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence...Silence is the general consecration of the Universe. Silence is the invisible laying on of the Divine Pontiff's hands upon the world. Silence is at once the most harmless and the most awful thing in all Nature. It speaks of the Reserved Forces of Fate. Silence is the only Voice of our God.

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This divineness had that in it...

This divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror.

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truly to enjoy bodily warmth, ...

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 it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more.

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Is he mad? Anyway there's some...

Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks.

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In thoughts of the visions of ...

In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti.

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