In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
HERMAN MELVILLEI cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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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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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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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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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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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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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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