You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
HERMAN MELVILLEWe cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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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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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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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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