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• We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls.

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• The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed.

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  Honor lies in the mane of a horse.

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• It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

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• Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none.

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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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• Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

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• It is not down in any map; true places never are.

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• To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.

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• Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

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• Where do murderers go, man! Who’s to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?

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• To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.

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• There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.

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• Toil is man’s allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that’s more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

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• They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

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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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• 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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• Truth is in things, and not in words.

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• To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment.

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• Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

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Herman Melville (76)

Birth:	1st August, 1819
Death:	28th September, 1891
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Poet, Sailor, Writer

About

Herman Melville was born in New York City, New York, USA. He was an American novelist, short story writer and poet. His best known works include Typee, a romantic account of his experiences in Polynesian life, and his whaling novel Moby-Dick. He wrote several books include: Omoo, Mardi(novel), Redburn, White-Jacket, Pierre(novel), Israel Potter, Bartleby and Benito Cereno(short story), The Confidence Man, Benito Cereno(novel), Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War: Civil War Poems, The Piazza Tales(short story), Clarel(poem), I and My Chimney, Timoleon(poem), and The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids(short story).

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