An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
HERMAN MELVILLEDo not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
More Herman Melville Quotes
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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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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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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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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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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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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