It is not down in any map; true places never are.
HERMAN MELVILLEI do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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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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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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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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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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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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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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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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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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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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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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