I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
HERMAN MELVILLEWe 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.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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All 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.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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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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There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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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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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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