I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
HERMAN MELVILLEThink not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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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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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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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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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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