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Quote by Herman Melville
Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the

Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. – Herman Melville

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

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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? – Herman Melville

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