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The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind but not the march of Love.
Herman Melville
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Herman Melville
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: August 1
Died: 1891
Died: September 28
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There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.
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In our man-of-war world, Life comes in at one gangway and Death goes overboard at the other. Under the man-of-war scourge, cursesmix with tears and the sigh and the sob furnish the bass to the shrill octave of those who laugh to drown buried griefs of their own.
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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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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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I baptize you not in the name of the father, but in the name of the devil. (Ego baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli.)
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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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Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they carelittle of what mere worldly imprudence they may be guilty.
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To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.
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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.
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Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals.
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Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.
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Man and boy, I have lived ever since I can remember.
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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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All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys, The champions and enthusiasts of the state: Turbid ardors and vain joys Not barrenly abate-- Stimulants to the power mature, Preparatives of fate.
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