Only the man who says no is free
HERMAN MELVILLEWhatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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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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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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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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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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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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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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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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