A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
HERMAN MELVILLEWhatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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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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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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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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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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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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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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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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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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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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