A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
HERMAN MELVILLEYet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
More Herman Melville Quotes
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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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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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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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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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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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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