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All truth is profound....

All truth is profound.

Herman Melville 593 quotes

It is not for man to follow th...

It is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by so doing he entirely loses the directing compass of his mind.

Herman Melville 593 quotes

At my years, and with my dispo...

At my years, and with my disposition, or rather, constitution, one gets to care less and less for everything except downright goodfeeling. Life is so short, and so ridiculous and irrational (from a certain point of view) that one knows not what to make of it, unless--well, finish the sentence for yourself.

Herman Melville 593 quotes

We die of too much life....

We die of too much life.

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We die, because we live....

We die, because we live.

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Books, gentlemen, are a specie...

Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the 'very best society' that this world can furnish, without the intolerable infliction of 'dressing' to go into it. In your shabbiest coat and cosiest slippers you may socially chat even with the fastidious Earl of Chesterfield, and lounging under a tree enjoy the divinest intimacy with my late lord of Verulam.

Herman Melville 593 quotes

He knows himself, and all that...

He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.

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You know nothing till you know...

You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.

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The Past is dead, and has no r...

The Past is dead, and has no resurrection; but the Future is endowed with such a life, that it lives to us even in anticipation. The Past is, in many things, the foe of mankind; the Future is, in all things, our friend. In the Past is no hope; The Future is both hope and fruition. The Past is the text-book of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.

Herman Melville 593 quotes

All the world over, the pictur...

All the world over, the picturesque yields to the pocketesque.

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The ancients of the ideal desc...

The ancients of the ideal description, instead of trying to turn their impracticable chimeras, as does the modern dreamer, into social and political prodigies, deposited them in great works of art, which still live while states and constitutions have perished, bequeathing to posterity not shameful defects but triumphant successes.

Herman Melville 593 quotes

If there be any thing a man mi...

If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth.

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all mankind, not excluding Ame...

all mankind, not excluding Americans, are sinners--miserable sinners, as even no few Bostonians themselves nowadays contritely respond in the liturgy.

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Surely a gentle sister is the ...

Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after.

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It is well known, that the bes...

It is well known, that the best productions of the best human intellects, are generally regarded by those intellects as mere immature freshman exercises, wholly worthless in themselves, except as initiatives for entering the great University of God after death.

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The world is forever babbling ...

The world is forever babbling of originality; but there never yet was an original man, in the sense intended by the world; the first man himself--who according to the Rabbins was also the first author--not being an original; the only original author being God.

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Where does any novelist pick u...

Where does any novelist pick up any character? For the most part, in town, to be sure.

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How feeble is all language to ...

How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of our prisons, and condemn to perpetual solitude in the very heart of our population.

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That author who draws a charac...

That author who draws a character, even though to common view incongruous in its parts, as the flying-squirrel, and, at differentperiods, as much at variance with itself as the caterpillar is with the butterfly into which it changes, may yet, in so doing, be not false but faithful to facts.

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Praise when merited is not a b...

Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it.

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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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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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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....