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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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. – Herman Melville

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Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. – Herman Melville

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

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The ship that will not obey the helm will have to obey the rocks. – English Proverb

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Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence. – Joan Baez

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Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven! – Lord Byron

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