See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
HERMAN MELVILLEI’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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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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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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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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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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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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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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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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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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