My body is but the lees of my better being.
HERMAN MELVILLESee how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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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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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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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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