Herman Melville | work
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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Herman Melville
Herman Melville | wisdom
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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Herman Melville | truth
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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Herman Melville | travel
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
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Herman Melville | strength
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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