There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
HERMAN MELVILLEAll 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.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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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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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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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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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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