The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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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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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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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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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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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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