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To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.
Herman Melville
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Herman Melville
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: August 1
Died: 1891
Died: September 28
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All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event — in the living act, the undoubted deed — there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask.
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Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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It is plain and demonstrable, that much ale is not good for Yankee, and operates differently upon them from what it does upon a Briton ale must be drank in a fog and a drizzle.
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Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man and it is first in point of occurrence for the wife comes after.
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And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for somebody else? Stranger things have happened.
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Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all.
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All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.
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Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none.
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Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.
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But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God - so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land!
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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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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind.
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A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing.
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We are only what we are not what we would be nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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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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A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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All truth is profound.
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Dollars damn me and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar. ... What I feel most moved to write, that is banned - it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the other way I cannot. So the product is a final hash, and all my books are botches.
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