We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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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.
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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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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.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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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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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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