The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
HERMAN MELVILLEI know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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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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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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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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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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