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flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home.
Herman Melville
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Herman Melville
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: August 1
Died: 1891
Died: September 28
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In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
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The ancients of the ideal description, instead of trying to turn their impracticable chimeras, as does the modern dreamer, into social and political prodigies, deposited them in great works of art, which still live while states and constitutions have perished, bequeathing to posterity not shameful defects but triumphant successes.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.
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The world is forever babbling of originality but there never yet was an original man, in the sense intended by the world the first man himself--who according to the Rabbins was also the first author--not being an original the only original author being God.
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To the last, I grapple with thee From Hell's heart, I stab at thee For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.
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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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Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map true places never are.
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To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes.
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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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Wag the world how it will, Leaves must be green in Spring.
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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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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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All truth is profound.
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Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.
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My means are sane, my motives and my object mad.
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Some dying men are the most tyrannical and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.
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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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Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals.
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Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.
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