Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Only the man who says no is free
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