You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
HERMAN MELVILLEIn a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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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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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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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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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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Only the man who says no is free
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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