The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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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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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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