#he

Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid. ↗

— Bernard Meltzer

#answer #ask #before #going #helpful

You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. ↗

— Bernard Meltzer

#friends #get #interested #make #months

We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#earth #here #right #us

He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it. ↗

— Herman Melville

#been #burst #chest #down #felt

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

#alike #cracked #dreadfully #head #heaven

It was a lot of fun being a child actress. It suited me. I don't think it suits everybody, but I was in it because I had a passion, not because my parents wanted me to make money. If other kids want to do it, and they really like acting, go for it. ↗

— Alanna Ubach

#actress #because #being #child #everybody

To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee. ↗

— Herman Melville

#grapple #hate #heart #hell #i

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it. ↗

— Herman Melville

#choose #enduring #ever #flea #great

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. ↗

— Herman Melville

#church #clergyman #get #go #heavens

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. ↗

— Herman Melville

#great #man #never #somewhere #who