War yet shall be, but warriors are now operatives; war's made less grand than peace.

Herman Melville
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  1. If you want to bring the world closer to peace, be a peacemaker by creating peace whenever you can. If you find yourself engaged in an argument that only stirs anger in the heart, quickly make peace and carry on. - Suzy Kassem

  2. In war, the first casualty is truth. - Terry Hayes

  3. If we need help, we must cry to the Most High God. - Lailah Gifty Akita

  4. Nobility is a lie. A pretence that high standing comes from anything more than money or martial prowess. Any dolt can play the noble, and as you'll discover in time, daughter, it's mostly dolts who do. - Anthony Ryan

  5. Praying is pleasing to God. - Lailah Gifty Akita

More Quotes By Herman Melville
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  2. So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and you come back again; but in very poor plight. Thus, some minds for ever keep trimming boat. Oh, ye foolish!...

  3. Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare's? But if his eyes were broad as the lens of Herschel's...

  4. Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.

  5. But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.

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