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We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving. ↗

— Bernard Meltzer

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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. ↗

— Herman Melville

#friendship #like #love #love at first sight #only

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. ↗

— Herman Melville

#always #aught #death #less #life

It was a lot of fun being a child actress. It suited me. I don't think it suits everybody, but I was in it because I had a passion, not because my parents wanted me to make money. If other kids want to do it, and they really like acting, go for it. ↗

— Alanna Ubach

#actress #because #being #child #everybody

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

#church #clergyman #get #go #heavens

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart. ↗

— Mencius

#does #great #great man #his #lose

To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another. ↗

— Herman Melville

#called #oftentimes #one thing #thing

Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish? ↗

— Herman Melville

#cannot #habit #strange #strange thing #thing

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. ↗

— Menander

#all things #despair #diligence #diligently #labor

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil. ↗

— Menander

#face #marriage #necessary #necessary evil #truth