I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
HERMAN MELVILLEThere are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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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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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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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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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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