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Herman Melville
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: August 1
Died: 1891
Died: September 28
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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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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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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do--remember that--and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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My means are sane, my motives and my object mad.
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We die of too much life.
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Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple dumpling.
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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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Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.
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To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb.
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Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues.
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Man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.
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Woe to him who seeks to please rather than appall.
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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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The phantom-host has faded quite, Splendor and Terror gone-- Portent or promise--and gives way To pale, meek Dawn.
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Let faith oust fact let fancy oust memory I look deep down and do believe.
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Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.
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