Only the man who says no is free
HERMAN MELVILLE
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Only the man who says no is free
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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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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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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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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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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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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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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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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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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