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To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.
Herman Melville
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Herman Melville
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: August 1
Died: 1891
Died: September 28
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I never fancied broiling fowls - though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a broiled fowl than I will.
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The man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.
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He, who, in view of its inconsistencies, says of human nature the same that, in view of its contrasts, is said of the divine nature, that it is past finding out, thereby evinces a better appreciation of it than he who, by always representing it in a clear light, leaves it to be inferred that he clearly knows all about it.
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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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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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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Our souls belong to our bodies, not our bodies to our souls.
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Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.
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Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!
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Thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.
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