See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
HERMAN MELVILLEWe cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Only the man who says no is free
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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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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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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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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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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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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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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