Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
HERMAN MELVILLE
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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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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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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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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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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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Only the man who says no is free
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