When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
HERMAN MELVILLELife’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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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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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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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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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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