Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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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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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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