A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
HERMAN MELVILLELet us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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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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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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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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