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?
HERMAN MELVILLEAll 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.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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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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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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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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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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