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.
HERMAN MELVILLEOf all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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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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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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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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You cannot hide the soul.
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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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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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