If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
HERMAN MELVILLETis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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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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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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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 eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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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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You cannot hide the soul.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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