My body is but the lees of my better being.
HERMAN MELVILLE
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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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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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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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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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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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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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
HERMAN MELVILLE