Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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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 only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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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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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like 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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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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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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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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