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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.

~Herman Melville

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

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Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

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There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.

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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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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

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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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Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: August 1st, 1819

Died: September 28th, 1891

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