When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
HERMAN MELVILLETruth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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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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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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