I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
HERMAN MELVILLEThink not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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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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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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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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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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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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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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