Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
HERMAN MELVILLEAs for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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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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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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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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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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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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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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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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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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