The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
HERMAN MELVILLEI am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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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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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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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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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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