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?
HERMAN MELVILLEThe poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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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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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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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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We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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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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You cannot hide the soul.
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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