We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
HERMAN MELVILLESee how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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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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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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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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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Only the man who says no is free
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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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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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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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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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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