Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
HERMAN MELVILLEMy body is but the lees of my better being.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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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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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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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 eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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