I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
HERMAN MELVILLEI know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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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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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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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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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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