The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
HERMAN MELVILLEWe cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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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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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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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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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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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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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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