We cannot live for ourselves alone.
HERMAN MELVILLEHe who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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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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You cannot hide the soul.
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Only the man who says no is free
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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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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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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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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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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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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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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