I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
HERMAN MELVILLENo philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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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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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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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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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
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