The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
HERMAN MELVILLEArt is the objectification of feeling.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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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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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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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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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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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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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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