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" Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things. "
Herman Melville
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" To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee. "
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" He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it. "
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" Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish? "
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" I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge. "
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Heaven
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" There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath. "
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