"To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."
-Herman Melville
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"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.“
-Herman Melville
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"Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity."
-Herman Melville
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"Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?"
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"Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister."
-Herman Melville
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"Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth."
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"In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers."
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