He helped people. Everybody loved him because he was a good person. He tried to help everybody. It was hard for him to turn anybody down about anything.


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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly...
HERMAN MELVILLE
If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dre...
HERMAN MELVILLE
For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
HERMAN MELVILLE
Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, --for it is a sign of strength to be wea...
HERMAN MELVILLE
The chief mate of the Pequod was Starbuck, a native of Nantucket, and a Quaker by descent. He was a ...
HERMAN MELVILLE
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vi...
HERMAN MELVILLE
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
HERMAN MELVILLE
There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in ...
HERMAN MELVILLE
In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own go...
HERMAN MELVILLE
I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence...
HERMAN MELVILLE
Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon Go...
HERMAN MELVILLE
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticism...
HERMAN MELVILLE
The films of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar always seemed to me mere thin skims of the st...
HERMAN WOUK
We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world;...
HERMAN MELVILLE
The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the ...
HERMAN MELVILLE
He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.
HERMAN MELVILLE
I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantag...
HERMAN WOUK
The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in real...
HERMAN MELVILLE
The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as ...
HERMAN MELVILLE
A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will th...
HERMAN MELVILLE
Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove ...
HERMAN CAIN
Look you, Doubloon, your zodiac here is the life of man in one round chapter. To begin: there's Arie...
HERMAN MELVILLE
For the first time in my life a feeling of overpowering stinging melancholy seized me. Before, I had...
HERMAN MELVILLE
Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove...
HERMAN CAIN
People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if ...
HERMAN MELVILLE
They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
HERMAN MELVILLE
How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends....
HERMAN MELVILLE
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselv...
HERMAN HESSE
The primary requisite for any new tax law is for it to exempt enough voters to win the next election
HERMAN WOUK
Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinct...
HERMAN MELVILLE
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doi...
HERMAN CAIN
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
HERMAN WOUK
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
HERMAN MELVILLE
The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.
HERMAN WOUK
Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.
HERMAN MELVILLE
Joel: That's the movies, Ed. Try reality.
Ed: No thanks.
ELLEN HERMAN
If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of...
ALEXIS HERMAN
The endorsement process is an evolution. What you try to do is you endorse someone that you believe ...
HERMAN CAIN
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man tak...
HERMAN MELVILLE
A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing int...
HERMAN KAHN
Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, ...
HERMAN KAHN
Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media c...
HERMAN CAIN
He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole ...
HERMAN MELVILLE
Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
HERMAN MELVILLE
Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Socie...
HERMAN MELVILLE
If I had been under ObamaCare, and a beaurocrat had been trying to tell me when I could get that CT ...
HERMAN CAIN
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity...
HERMAN MELVILLE
The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also cre...
HERMAN KAHN
Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are go...
ALEXIS HERMAN
At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.
HERMAN MELVILLE