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.
HERMAN MELVILLETruth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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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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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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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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