The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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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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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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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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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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