I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
HERMAN MELVILLEFaith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Only the man who says no is free
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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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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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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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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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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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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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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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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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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