If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
HERMAN MELVILLESee how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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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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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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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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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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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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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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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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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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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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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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