Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
HERMAN MELVILLEStay true to the dreams of thy youth.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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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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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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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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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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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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