My body is but the lees of my better being.
HERMAN MELVILLEOne of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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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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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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