There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
HERMAN MELVILLEWe cannot live for ourselves alone.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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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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Failure is the test of greatness.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Only the man who says no is free
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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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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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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