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Quote by Herman Melville
Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by

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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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. – Herman Melville

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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation. – Herman Melville

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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. – Isaac Newton

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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. – Samuel Johnson

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