Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
HERMAN MELVILLEAn utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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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.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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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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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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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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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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