"Friendship at first sight, like love at first……" — Herman Melville
"Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth."
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285 Quotes by Herman Melville
Herman Melville has 285 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a…
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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…
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Prayer draws us near to our own souls.
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More First Sight Quotes
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Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce…
— Lord Chesterfield
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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
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It wasn't love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.
— Lucille Ball
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When you fall in love with golf, you seldom fall easy. Itʹs obsession at first sight.
— Thomas Boswell
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Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration…
— William Hazlitt
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The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which…
— Michel de Montaigne
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The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we…
— John Stuart Mill
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I learnt to distrust all physical concepts as the basis for a theory. Instead one should put one's trust in…
— Paul Dirac
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I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the…
— John B. S. Haldane
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I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a squire pulling arrows from his body to…
— Kevin Costner
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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?
— Christopher Marlowe
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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is…
— William Hazlitt
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