The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
HERMAN MELVILLEA book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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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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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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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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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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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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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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