Let us be Christians toward our fellow-whites, as well as philanthropists toward the blacks our fellow-men. In all things, and toward all, we are enjoined to do as we would be done by.
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Citations by Herman Melville
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A laugh's the wisest, easiest answer to all that's queer.
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The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction can not so readily be achieved in a narration essentially having less to do with fable than with fact. Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
from the book "" by Herman Melville
Nature is nobody's ally.
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I let nothing slip, however small; and feel myself actuated by the same motive which has prompted many worthy old chroniclers, to set down the merest trifles concerning things that are destined to pass away entirely from the earth, and which, if not preserved in the nick of time, must infallibly perish from the memories of man. Who knows that this humble narrative may not hereafter prove the history of an obsolete barbarism? Who knows that, when men-of-war shall be no more, "White-Jacket" may not be quoted to show to the people in the Millennium what a man-of-war was? God hasten the time!
from the book "White-Jacket, Or, the World in a Man-Of-War" by Melville Herman
Billy's agony, mainly proceeding from a generous young heart's virgin experience of the diabolical incarnate and effective in some men: the tension of that agony was over now.
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We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people, the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.
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Life was to these a dream fulfilled,
And death a starry night.
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own innocent self, will still dream horrid dreams, and mutter unmentionable thoughts.
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