I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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Only the man who says no is free
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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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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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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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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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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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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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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