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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
Herman Melville
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Herman Melville
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: August 1
Died: 1891
Died: September 28
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Whatever has made, or does make, or may make music, should be held sacred as the golden bridle-bit of the Shah of Persia's horse,and the golden hammer, with which his hoofs are shod.
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We die, because we live.
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Let us pray that the great historic tragedy of our time may not have been enacted without instructing our whole beloved country through terror and pity and may fulfillment verify in the end those expectations which kindle the bards of Progress and Humanity.
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If Shakespeare has not been equalled, he is sure to be surpassed, and surpassed by an American born now or yet to be born.
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Let me look into a human eye it is better than to gaze into sea or sky better than to gaze upon God.
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The lightning flashes through my skull mine eyeballs ache and ache my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Love is both Creator's and Saviour's gospel to mankind a volume bound in rose-leaves, clasped with violets, and by the beaks of humming-birds printed with peach-juice on the leaves of lilies.
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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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I will frankly confess that after passing a few weeks in the valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than I had ever before entertained. But, alas, since then I have been one of the crew of a man-of- war, and the pent-up wickedness of five hundred men has nearly overturned all my previous theories.
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You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in.
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The ancients of the ideal description, instead of trying to turn their impracticable chimeras, as does the modern dreamer, into social and political prodigies, deposited them in great works of art, which still live while states and constitutions have perished, bequeathing to posterity not shameful defects but triumphant successes.
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If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth.
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flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home.
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That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia.
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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.
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Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple dumpling.
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