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.
HERMAN MELVILLEAs for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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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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Only the man who says no is free
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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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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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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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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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