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Herman Melville, Moby Dick US novelist & sailor (1819 - 1891)
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Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.

From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.

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.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.



A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

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