I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
HERMAN MELVILLETis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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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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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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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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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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