A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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