Only the man who says no is free
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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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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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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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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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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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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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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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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