What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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You 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.
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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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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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