In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
HERMAN MELVILLEThere is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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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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Only the man who says no is free
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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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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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