A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
HERMAN MELVILLEYou cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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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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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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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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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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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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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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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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