What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
HERMAN MELVILLEYet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
More Herman Melville Quotes
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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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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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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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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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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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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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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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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