Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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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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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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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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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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