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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
Herman Melville
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Herman Melville
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: August 1
Died: 1891
Died: September 28
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Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they carelittle of what mere worldly imprudence they may be guilty.
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Surrounded as we are by the wants and woes of our fellow-men, and yet given to follow our own pleasures, regardless of their pains, are we not like people sitting up with a corpse, and making merry in the house of the dead?
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world deaf to its voice and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.
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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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There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.
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flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home.
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To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment.
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Surely no mere mortal who has at all gone down into himself will ever pretend that his slightest thought or act solely originates in his own defined identity.
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Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.
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There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship by her, borrowed from the sea by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God.
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Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them.
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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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