Herman Melville | nature
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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Herman Melville | hope
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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Herman Melville | hope
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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Herman Melville | great
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 | future
There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.
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Herman Melville | faith
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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Herman Melville | death
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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