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Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it.
Herman Melville
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Herman Melville
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: August 1
Died: 1891
Died: September 28
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Whenever we discover a dislike in us, toward any one, we should ever be a little suspicious of ourselves.
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The profound calm which only apparently precedes and prophesies of the storm, is perhaps more awful than the storm itself for indeed, the calm is but the wrapper and envelop of the storm, and contains it in itself, as the seemingly harmless rifle holds the fatal powder, and the ball, and the explosion.
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My means are sane, my motives and my object mad.
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Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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Youth is the time when hearts are large, And stirring wars Appeal to the spirit which appeals in turn To the blade it draws.
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Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity!
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Woe to him who seeks to please rather than appall.
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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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There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.
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...a man of true science uses few hard words, and those only when none other will answer his purpose Where as the smatterer in science...thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
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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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When my eye rested on an arid height, spirit partook of the barrenness. - Heartily wish Niebuhr & Strauss to the dogs. The deuce take their penetration & acumen. They have robbed us of the bloom.
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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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We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world deaf to its voice and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.
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Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!
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Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals.
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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks.
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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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