I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
HERMAN MELVILLEI am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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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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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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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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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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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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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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