If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
HERMAN MELVILLEIt is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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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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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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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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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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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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