One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
HERMAN MELVILLEThinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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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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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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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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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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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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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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You cannot hide the soul.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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