for it is often to be observed of the shallower men that they are the very last to despond. It is the glory of the bladder that nothing can sink it it is the reproach of a box of treasure that once...

for it is often to be observed of the shallower men that they are the very last to despond. It is the glory of the bladder that nothing can sink it it is the reproach of a box of treasure that once overboard it must drown
Herman Melville

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We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results
- Herman Melville

for it is often to be observed of the shallower men that they are the very last to despond. It is the glory of the bladder that nothing can sink it it is the reproach of a box of treasure that once overboard it must drown Herman Melville

for it is often to be observed of the shallower men that they are the very last to despond. It is the glory of the bladder that nothing can sink it it is the reproach of a box of treasure that once overboard it must drown
Herman Melville