Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
HERMAN MELVILLEOld age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future 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.
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Only the man who says no is free
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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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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Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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