Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
HERMAN MELVILLEWhatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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