The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
HERMAN MELVILLEOnly the man who says no is free
More Herman Melville Quotes
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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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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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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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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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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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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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