The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
HERMAN MELVILLEIn a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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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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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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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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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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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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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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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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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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