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 MELVILLEIn a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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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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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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