The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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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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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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Only the man who says no is free
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