I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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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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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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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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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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