Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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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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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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 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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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
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We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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