A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
HERMAN MELVILLEMy body is but the lees of my better being.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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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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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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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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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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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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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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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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