To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
HERMAN MELVILLEAid my disillusionment, my friend!
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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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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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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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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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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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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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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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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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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