I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
HERMAN MELVILLEStay true to the dreams of thy youth.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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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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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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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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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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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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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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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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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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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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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