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Herman Melville
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: August 1
Died: 1891
Died: September 28
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New York City
Hermann Melville
Herman Melvill
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Forty years after a battle it is easy for a non-combatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It is another thing personally and under fire to direct the fighting while involved in the obscuring smoke of it.
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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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Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale... from hell's heart I stab at thee.
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He seemed to take to me quite as naturally and unbiddenly as I to him and when our smoke was over, he pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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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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Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy.
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Some dying men are the most tyrannical and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.
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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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What troops Of generous boys in happiness thus bred Saturnians through life's Tempe led, Went from the North and came from the South, With golden mottoes in the mouth, To lie down midway on a bloody bed.
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He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of comrades is much countenance and consolation.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.
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To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Prayer draws us near to our own souls.
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Though the ancients were ignorant of the principles of Christianity there were in them the germs of its spirit.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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