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Herman Melville
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: August 1
Died: 1891
Died: September 28
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Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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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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All we discover has been with us since the sun began to roll and much we discover, is not worth the discovering.
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Immortality is but ubiquity in time.
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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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The friendship of fine-hearted, generous boys, nurtured amid the romance-engendering comforts and elegancies of life, sometimes transcends the bounds of mere boyishness, and revels for a while in the empyrean of a love which only comes short, by one degree, of the sweetest sentiment entertained between the sexes.
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in Shakespeare and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth, even though it be covertly, and by snatches.
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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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It is well known, that the best productions of the best human intellects, are generally regarded by those intellects as mere immature freshman exercises, wholly worthless in themselves, except as initiatives for entering the great University of God after death.
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You know nothing till you know all which is the reason we never know any thing.
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The ancients of the ideal description, instead of trying to turn their impracticable chimeras, as does the modern dreamer, into social and political prodigies, deposited them in great works of art, which still live while states and constitutions have perished, bequeathing to posterity not shameful defects but triumphant successes.
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Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.
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He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.
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It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are not indispensable to domestic solacement.
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That author who draws a character, even though to common view incongruous in its parts, as the flying-squirrel, and, at differentperiods, as much at variance with itself as the caterpillar is with the butterfly into which it changes, may yet, in so doing, be not false but faithful to facts.
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It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.
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