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Herman Melville
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: August 1
Died: 1891
Died: September 28
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You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in.
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all mankind, not excluding Americans, are sinners--miserable sinners, as even no few Bostonians themselves nowadays contritely respond in the liturgy.
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Man and boy, I have lived ever since I can remember.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all.
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Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple dumpling.
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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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...that one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on, for ever and for aye. Such is the endlessness, yea, the intolerableness of all earthly effort.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it.
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What man who carries a heavenly soul in him, has not groaned to perceive, that unless he committed a sort of suicide as to the practical things of this world, he never can hope to regulate his earthly conduct by that same heavenly soul?
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Evil is the chronic malady of the universe, and checked in one place, breaks forth in another.
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For though consciences are as unlike as foreheads, every intelligence, not including the Scriptural devils who believe and tremble has one.
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Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?
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Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy.
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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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I am past scorching not easily can’st thou scorch a scar.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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