Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
HERMAN MELVILLEFaith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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You cannot hide the soul.
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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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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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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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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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