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In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
Herman Melville
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Herman Melville
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: August 1
Died: 1891
Died: September 28
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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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My means are sane, my motives and my object mad.
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For though consciences are as unlike as foreheads, every intelligence, not including the Scriptural devils who believe and tremble has one.
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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 phantom-host has faded quite, Splendor and Terror gone-- Portent or promise--and gives way To pale, meek Dawn.
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