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.
HERMAN MELVILLEThink not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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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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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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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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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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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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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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