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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
Herman Melville
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Herman Melville
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: August 1
Died: 1891
Died: September 28
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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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I am past scorching not easily can’st thou scorch a scar.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Where is there such an one who has not a thousand times been struck with a sort of infidel idea, that whatever other worlds God may be Lord of, he is not the Lord of this for else this world would seem to give the lie to Him so utterly repugnant seem its ways to the instinctively known ways of Heaven.
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flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home.
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That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia.
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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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all mankind, not excluding Americans, are sinners--miserable sinners, as even no few Bostonians themselves nowadays contritely respond in the liturgy.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?
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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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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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There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.
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