Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
HERMAN MELVILLEDo not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
More Herman Melville Quotes
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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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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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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Only the man who says no is free
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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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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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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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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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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