Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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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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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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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.
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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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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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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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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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