Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
HERMAN MELVILLEI cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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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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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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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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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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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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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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