Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
HERMAN MELVILLEFriendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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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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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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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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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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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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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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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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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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