Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Herman Melville Quotes Click here for Herman Melville books Herman Melville (Penguin Lives) (Penguin Lives) "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and along these fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects." "Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance." "Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob." "Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring." "In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command." "Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused. The privilege, inborn and inalienable, that every man has of dying himself, and inflicting death upon another, was not given to us without a purpose. These are the last resources of an insulted and unendurable existence." "The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves." "In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a sacred white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in Shakespeare and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth,—even though it be covertly, and by snatches." "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 is the true test of greatness." "You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in." "Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round." "It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite." "A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities." "All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence." "Silence is the general consecration of the universe. Silence is the invisible laying on of the Divine Pontiff's hands upon the world. Silence is at once the most harmless and the most awful thing in all nature. It speaks of the Reserved Forces of Fate. Silence is the only Voice of our God." "Well, there is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is." "If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid." |
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