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 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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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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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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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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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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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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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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Only the man who says no is free
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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