In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
HERMAN MELVILLEIt is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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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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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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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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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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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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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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