The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
HERMAN MELVILLETis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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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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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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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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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Only the man who says no is free
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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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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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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