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A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
Herman Melville
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Herman Melville
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: August 1
Died: 1891
Died: September 28
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Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.
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Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple dumpling.
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People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward but for my part, if I have done the hardest possible day's work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortably -why, then I don't think I deserve any reward for my hard day's work -for am I not now at peace? Is not my supper good?
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Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, under torrents' beds, unerringly I rush! Naught's an obstacle, naught's an angle to the iron way!
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Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself but is an errand-boy in heaven nor one single star can revolve, but by some invisible power how then can this one small heart beat this one small brain think thoughts unless God does that beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I.
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There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.
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Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale... from hell's heart I stab at thee.
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Think of it. To go down to posterity as a 'man who lived among the cannibals.'
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Though the ancients were ignorant of the principles of Christianity there were in them the germs of its spirit.
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To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.
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We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.
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He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship's decks, like hungry dogs round a table where red meat is being carved, ready to bolt down every killed man that is tossed to them.
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All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence.
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And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for somebody else? Stranger things have happened.
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Youth is the time when hearts are large, And stirring wars Appeal to the spirit which appeals in turn To the blade it draws.
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Zeal is not of necessity religion, neither is it always of the same essence with poetry or patriotism.
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