What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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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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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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