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A life of only a single day spent in virtuous meditation is better than living a hundred years unbalanced and immoral.
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I have ever found your plain things the knottiest of all.
~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Moby-Dick (1851), ch. 85, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 6, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1988). ~

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The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."
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The important thing, as Abbe Galiani said to Mme d'Epinay, is not to be cured, but to live with one's ailments.
~ The Myth of Sisyphus, An Absurd Reasoning, Philosophical Suicide, Albert Camus (1913 - 1960) ~

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Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled. Mahomet called the hill to come to him, again and again; and when the hill stood still he was never a whit abashed, but said, "If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill."
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About Pontus there are some creatures of such an extempore being that the whole term of their life is confined within the space of a day; for they are brought forth in the morning, are in the prime of their existence at noon, grow old at night, and then die.
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His duty he always faithfully did; but duty is sometimes a dry obligation, and he was for irrigating its aridity, whensoever possible, with a fertilizing decoction of strong waters.
~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Billy Budd, Sailor (posthumous), ch 1, eds. Harrison Hayford and Merton M. Sealts, Jr. (1962).

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