The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
HERMAN MELVILLEYou know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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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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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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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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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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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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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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