A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe eyes are the gateway to the soul.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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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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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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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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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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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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