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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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Book! You lie there the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do--remember that--and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship's decks, like hungry dogs round a table where red meat is being carved, ready to bolt down every killed man that is tossed to them.
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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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It is plain and demonstrable, that much ale is not good for Yankee, and operates differently upon them from what it does upon a Briton ale must be drank in a fog and a drizzle.
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Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But from that same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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Truth is ever incoherent, and when the big hearts strike together, the concussion is a little stunning.
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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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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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Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man and it is first in point of occurrence for the wife comes after.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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My means are sane, my motives and my object mad.
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It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.
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All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.
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Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.
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You know nothing till you know all which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Let us only hate hatred and once give love a play, we will fall in love with a unicorn.
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