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.
HERMAN MELVILLEWhatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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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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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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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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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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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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