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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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Herman Melville
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: August 1
Died: 1891
Died: September 28
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A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty.
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All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys, The champions and enthusiasts of the state: Turbid ardors and vain joys Not barrenly abate-- Stimulants to the power mature, Preparatives of fate.
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If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.
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Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple dumpling.
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The entire merit of a man can never be made known nor the sum of his demerits, if he have them. We are only known by our names as letters sealed up, we but read each other's superscriptions.
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Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.
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The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? — Because one did survive the wreck.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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You know nothing till you know all which is the reason we never know any thing.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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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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My means are sane, my motives and my object mad.
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As with ships, so with men he who turns his back to his foe gives him an advantage.
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Lo! ye believers in gods all goodness, and in man all ill, lo you! see the omniscient gods oblivious of suffering man and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.
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He who goes oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.
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Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.
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To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.
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The easiest way of life is the best.
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Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself but is an errand-boy in heaven nor one single star can revolve, but by some invisible power how then can this one small heart beat this one small brain think thoughts unless God does that beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I.
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