We cannot live for ourselves alone.
HERMAN MELVILLE
HERMAN MELVILLE
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville 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.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville 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?
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville Only the man who says no is free
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville Truth is in things, and not in words.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville 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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