They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
HERMAN MELVILLEI am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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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 cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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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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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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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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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Only the man who says no is free
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