Herman Melville

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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

Herman Melville

love

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

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men

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

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nature

At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.

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respect

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

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smile

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

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strength

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

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travel

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

Herman Melville

truth

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

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truth

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

Herman Melville

truth

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