Ignorance is the parent of fear.
HERMAN MELVILLEHope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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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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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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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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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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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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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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