One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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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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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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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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