When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
HERMAN MELVILLEIf you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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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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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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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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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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