A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
HERMAN MELVILLEWhatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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All 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.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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