Quotes by Herman Melville

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us...

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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man...

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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is...

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Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence...

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Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.

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It is not down in any map; true places never are.

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Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

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Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to...

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

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Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the...

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Truth is in things, and not in words.

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