Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
HERMAN MELVILLELet 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.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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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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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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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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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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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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Only the man who says no is free
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You cannot hide the soul.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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