| It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. |
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- Herman Melville |
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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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- Herman Melville |
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| Prayer draws us near to our own souls. |
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- Herman Melville |
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| Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you. |
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- Herman Melville |
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| If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books should be forbid. |
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- Herman Melville |
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| We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. |
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- Herman Melville |
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| Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear! |
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- Herman Melville |
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| It is not down in any map; true places never are. |
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- Herman Melville |
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