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Herman Melville has 292 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
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Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
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To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath…
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.
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See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps-often but old bottles and vials, though. ... He burns, too,…
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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…
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He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.
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Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be…
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Prayer draws us near to our own souls.
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If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no…
— Immanuel Kant
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Describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial: These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed…
— Jeff Greenfield
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Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed…
— Herman Melville
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Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now.
— Aaron Broussard
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You've committed murder just as much as Hélène did. You killed a fly with a human head, she killed a human with…
— James Clavell
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Beginning with a critique of my own limbs, which she said, justly enough, were nothing to write home about, this girl went…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
— Jeff Greenfield
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They committed murder, it is true; but their situation may have rendered it inevitable.
— Philip Hone
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You committed murder by, bullying that kid
— Taelor Chardae
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