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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.

Herman Melville

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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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