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Truth is in things, and not in words.

Herman Melville

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Herman Melville
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: August 1
Died: 1891
Died: September 28
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.
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If not against us, nature is not for us.
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Ladies are like creeds if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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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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Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale... from hell's heart I stab at thee.
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An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.
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To the last, I grapple with thee From Hell's heart, I stab at thee For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.
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Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
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There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.
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Students of history are horror-struck at the massacres of old but in the shambles, men are being murdered to-day.
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Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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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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It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.
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