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Immortality is but ubiquity in time.

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Herman Melville
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: August 1
Died: 1891
Died: September 28
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New York City
Hermann Melville
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Charity, like poetry, should be cultivated, if only for its being graceful.
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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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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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I baptize you not in the name of the father, but in the name of the devil. (Ego baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli.)
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At my years, and with my disposition, or rather, constitution, one gets to care less and less for everything except downright goodfeeling. Life is so short, and so ridiculous and irrational (from a certain point of view) that one knows not what to make of it, unless--well, finish the sentence for yourself.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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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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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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A man can be honest in any sort of skin.
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But are sailors, frequenters of fiddlers' greens, without vices? No but less often than with landsmen do their vices, so called, partake of crookedness of heart, seeming less to proceed from viciousness than exuberance of vitality after long constraint: frank manifestations in accordance with natural law.
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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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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Our souls belong to our bodies, not our bodies to our souls.
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Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.
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There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.
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Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours, to civilise civilisation and christianise Christendom?
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