"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."
-Herman Melville
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"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.“
-Herman Melville
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"Truth is in things, and not in words."
-Herman Melville
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"Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges."
-Herman Melville
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"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."
-Herman Melville
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"Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth."
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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."
-Herman Melville
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"Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that."
-Jeff Bridges
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"Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within."
-Caspar David Friedrich
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