What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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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Only the man who says no is free
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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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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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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