Only the man who says no is free
HERMAN MELVILLEAid my disillusionment, my friend!
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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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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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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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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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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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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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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