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Nothing may help or heal / While Amor incensed remembers wrong.
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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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The terrors of truth and dart of death / To faith alike are vain.
To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Everyone knows that in most people’s estimation, to do anything cooly is to do it genteelly.
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Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.
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From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.
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For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness.

Moby Dick

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Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.

Moby Dick

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Herman Melville (1819-1891) is one of the most important American novelists, famous for his masterpiece "Moby Dick" (1851). His experiences as a sailor served as inspiration for many of his writings, which often address themes such as revenge, obsession, the nature of evil, and the human condition. Although "Moby Dick" was not a commercial success during his lifetime, today it is acclaimed as a landmark of American literature. Other notable works include "Typee" and "The Piazza Tales". His literary career faced difficulties, and he spent the last years of his life working as a customs inspector in New York.