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There is not one of you whose actions do not operate on the actions of others — operate, we mean, in the way of example.

— Henry Melvill

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"Partaking in Other Men's Sins", an address at St. Margaret's Church, Lothbury, England (12 June 1855), printed in Golden Lectures (1855); eventually part of this statement become paraphrased in several slight variations, and has usually been misattributed to Herman Melville, i.e.: "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and along these fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects".

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Indifference, if let alone, will produce obduracy; and obduracy, if let alone, will produce torment.

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