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.
HERMAN MELVILLEWe cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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