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.

Herman Melville
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  2. So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and you come back again; but in very poor plight. Thus, some minds for ever keep trimming boat. Oh, ye foolish!...

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  4. Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.

  5. But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.

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