Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
HERMAN MELVILLESee how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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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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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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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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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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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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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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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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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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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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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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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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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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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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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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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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