I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
HERMAN MELVILLELadies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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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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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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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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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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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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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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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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