A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
HERMAN MELVILLEWhen the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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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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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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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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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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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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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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