We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
HERMAN MELVILLETruth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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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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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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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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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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