There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
HERMAN MELVILLEOf 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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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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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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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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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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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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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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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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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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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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