You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe eyes are the gateway to the soul.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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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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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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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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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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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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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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