Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
HERMAN MELVILLEYou 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.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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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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Only the man who says no is free
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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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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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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