Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
HERMAN MELVILLEFriendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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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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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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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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