A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. ~Herman Melville
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ~Herman Melville
From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. ~Herman Melville
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. ~Herman Melville
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