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Quote by Herman Melville
A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not

A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty. – Herman Melville

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The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass. – Herman Melville

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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. – Herman Melville

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

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Hurt a fly! He would not for the world: hes pitiful to flies even. Sing, says he, and tease me still, if thats your way, poor insect. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Nonviolence is fine as long as it works. – Malcolm X

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The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders. – Jean Cocteau

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