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.
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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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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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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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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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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