For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more?emembering my own?ins?nd follies; and realize that men? hearts are not often as bad as their acts, and very seldom as bad as their words. - J.R.R. Tolkien
I don? know half of you half as well as I should like and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. - J.R.R. Tolkien
The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity. - J.R.R. Tolkien
For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books. - Herman Melville
Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending. - Herman Melville
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. - Herman Melville
Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God. - Herman Melville
Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged. - Herman Melville
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke. - Herman Melville
There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them. - Herman Melville
There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future. - Herman Melville
There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities. - Herman Melville
There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man. - Herman Melville
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects. - Herman Melville
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