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Danh ngôn của Herman Melville (Sứ mệnh: 5)

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.
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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.
A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.