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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.

Herman Melville

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Appearance Handsome Judgement Myself Personality
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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Heaven Mercy Need Repair Sadness
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 MELVILLE

Born Equality Freedom Legal Men Slave Writing
Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Better Family Fool Himself Husband Life Maid Man Men Old Partner Stay Woman
Silence is the only Voice of our God.
HERMAN MELVILLE

God One Liner Silence Voice
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.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Charming Comfortable Empty Sadness Unknown
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.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Horror Life Ocean Surround
Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Silence Talk Women Yourself
Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
HERMAN MELVILLE

Assumption Criticism Home Poor Warm
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.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Easy Life Man Myself Way Youth
Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Animal Interfere Man Money
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Compromise Edge Ragged Truth
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Belief Death Doubt Faith Food Herself Hope Religious
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Better Failure Limitation Original Success
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Connection Leaving Ourselves Togetherness
I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Coast Love Myself Sea Travel Unknown

There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.

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