I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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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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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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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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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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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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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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