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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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? – Herman Melville

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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. – Herman Melville

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There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future. – Herman Melville

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Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be inseparable part of our very being. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends. – John Ruskin

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Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence. – Albert Camus

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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. – e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings

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