We cannot live for ourselves alone.
HERMAN MELVILLEHonor lies in the mane of a horse.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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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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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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