The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
HERMAN MELVILLEA thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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