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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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All we discover has been with us since the sun began to roll and much we discover, is not worth the discovering.
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Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!
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O Death, the Consecrator! Nothing so sanctifies a name As to be written--Dead. Nothing so wins a life from blame, So covers it from wrath and shame, As doth the burial-bed.
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