Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
HERMAN MELVILLEI am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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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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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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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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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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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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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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Failure is the test of greatness.
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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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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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