Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
HERMAN MELVILLEReal strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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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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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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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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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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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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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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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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