A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
More Herman Melville Quotes
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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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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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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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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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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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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