The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
HERMAN MELVILLENo philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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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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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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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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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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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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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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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 know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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