for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
HERMAN MELVILLEHe who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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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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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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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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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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