I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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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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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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Only the man who says no is free
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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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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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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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