The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
HERMAN MELVILLEI love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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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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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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