Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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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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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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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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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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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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