Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
HERMAN MELVILLEThere are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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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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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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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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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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