Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
HERMAN MELVILLEI cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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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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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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