When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
HERMAN MELVILLEDream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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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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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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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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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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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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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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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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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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