The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
HERMAN MELVILLEHonor lies in the mane of a horse.
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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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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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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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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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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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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