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Them Quotes by Herman Melville
- 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…
- 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…
- There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men…
- There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think…
- There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.
- Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must…
- Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty. Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed…
- Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more? In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary? Where…
- There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that…
- Thou saw'st the locked lovers when leaping from their flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting wave; true to each other, when…
- Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest…
- See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
- He who has never failed somewhere, that man can notbe great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be said, that continual…
- We talk of the Turks, and abhor the cannibals; but may not some of them, go to heaven, before some of us?
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- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
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- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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