Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
HERMAN MELVILLEI love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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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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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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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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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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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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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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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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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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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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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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