Silence is the only Voice of our God.
HERMAN MELVILLEThere is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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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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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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