Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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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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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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Failure is the true test of greatness
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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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.
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