Nature is nobody’s ally.
HERMAN MELVILLEWhen among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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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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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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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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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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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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