The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
HERMAN MELVILLEWhen among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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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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Only the man who says no is free
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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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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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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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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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