Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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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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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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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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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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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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You cannot hide the soul.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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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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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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