I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
HERMAN MELVILLEHeaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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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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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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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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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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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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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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