If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
HERMAN MELVILLE
HERMAN MELVILLE
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Herman Melville95 quotes“If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.”
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Herman MelvilleHerman Melville I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville It is not down in any map; true places never are.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville Ignorance is the parent of fear.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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