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 MELVILLENo philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Only the man who says no is free
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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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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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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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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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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