If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
HERMAN MELVILLELadies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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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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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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