My body is but the lees of my better being.
HERMAN MELVILLELadies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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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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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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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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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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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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