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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.
Category: America Author: 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!
Category: Clothing Author: Herman Melville
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
Category: Community Author: Herman Melville
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Category: Conformity Author: Herman Melville
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
Category: Live Now Author: Herman Melville
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Prayer draws us near to our own souls.
Category: Prayer Author: Herman Melville
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
Category: Travel Author: Herman Melville
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