There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
HERMAN MELVILLEWe cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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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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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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