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?
HERMAN MELVILLENo philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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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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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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You cannot hide the soul.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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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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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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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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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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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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There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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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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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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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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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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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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