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Herman Melville
August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891
Nationality: American
Category: Novelist
Subcategory: American Novelist

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

   

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.

   

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.

   

Truth is in things, and not in words.

   

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

   

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

   

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.

   

Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

   

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.

   

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

   

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.

   

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

   

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