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Herman Melville


American
August 1, 1819
Novelist
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.


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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.


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At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.


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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.
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There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.
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In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.
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Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.
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