Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
HERMAN MELVILLEAll 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.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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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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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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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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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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