Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
HERMAN MELVILLEThere are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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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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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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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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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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