"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men."
-Herman Melville
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"Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.“
-Herman Melville
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"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."
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"Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity."
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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."
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"Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth."
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"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
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"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts."
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