Quote by Herman Melville (1819-1891)

Where does the violet tint end and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blending enter into the other. So with sanity and insanity.

— Herman Melville. American writer and poet (1819–1891)

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Heaven have mercy on us all--Presbyterians and Pagans alike--for we are all dreadfully cracked about the head and desperately in need of mending.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.

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