The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
HERMAN MELVILLETruth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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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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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Let 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.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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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.
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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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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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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 produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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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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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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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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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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