We cannot live for ourselves alone.
HERMAN MELVILLEAid my disillusionment, my friend!
More Herman Melville Quotes
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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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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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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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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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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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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