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Man Quotes by Herman Melville
- For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
- People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if I have done the hardest…
- It is often to be observed, that as in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthly rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled…
- And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real…
- I will frankly confess that after passing a few weeks in the valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than…
- Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed murder for jealousy's…
- A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism.
- None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest…
- Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship's decks, like hungry dogs…
- What man who carries a heavenly soul in him, has not groaned to perceive, that unless he committed a sort of suicide as to the…
- God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture…
- An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
- For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy,…
- It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure…
- But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I…
- Not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows, or any one of them.
- It is-or seems to be-a wise sort of thing, to realise that all that happens to a man in this life is only by way…
- And what is it, thought I, after all! It’s only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.
- Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
- Man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his…
- The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
- O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter,…
- There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast…
- A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
- He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle