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Standing navies, as well as st...

Standing navies, as well as standing armies, serve to keep alive the spirit of war even in the meek heart of peace. In its very embers and smoulderings, they nourish that fatal fire, and half-pay officers, as the priests of Mars, yet guard the temple, though no god be there.

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Soldier or sailor, the fightin...

Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.

Herman Melville 593 quotes

The world's a ship on its voya...

The world's a ship on its voyage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.

Herman Melville 593 quotes

Where is there such an one who...

Where is there such an one who has not a thousand times been struck with a sort of infidel idea, that whatever other worlds God may be Lord of, he is not the Lord of this; for else this world would seem to give the lie to Him; so utterly repugnant seem its ways to the instinctively known ways of Heaven.

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Ladies are like creeds; if you...

Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.

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It is with fiction as with rel...

It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.

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The names of all fine authors ...

The names of all fine authors are fictitious ones, far more so than that of Junius,--simply standing, as they do, for the mystical, ever-eluding Spirit of all Beauty, which ubiquitously possesses men of genius.

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The only ugliness is that of t...

The only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face. And though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible.

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A beautiful woman is born Quee...

A beautiful woman is born Queen of men and women both, as Mary Stuart was born Queen of Scots, whether men or women.

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beauty is like piety--you cann...

beauty is like piety--you cannot run and read it; tranquility and constancy, with, now-a-days, an easy chair, are needed.

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One of the coolest and wisest ...

One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.

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While nature thus very early a...

While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet.

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Boy, take my advice, and never...

Boy, take my advice, and never try to invent any thing but--happiness.

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Of the quaking recruit, three ...

Of the quaking recruit, three pitched battles make a grim grenadier; and he who shrank from the muzzle of a cannon, is now ready to yield his mustache for a sponge.

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He who is ready to despair in ...

He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of comrades is much countenance and consolation.

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Let us only hate hatred; and o...

Let us only hate hatred; and once give love a play, we will fall in love with a unicorn.

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In a multitude of acquaintance...

In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.

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In our man-of-war world, Life ...

In our man-of-war world, Life comes in at one gangway and Death goes overboard at the other. Under the man-of-war scourge, cursesmix with tears; and the sigh and the sob furnish the bass to the shrill octave of those who laugh to drown buried griefs of their own.

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If a well-constituted individu...

If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without reproach be equally discreet.

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A thing may be incredible and ...

A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....