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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know

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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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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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. – Herman Melville

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The spiritual quality of earth: eternally pregnant and containing in its fertility the unwritten cipher of cosmic lore. – Frieda Harris

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Of all natures gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children? – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a persons mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious. – Corin Nemec

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If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. – Thomas John Watson, Sr.

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Behold they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them. Genesis 11:6 – Bible

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