Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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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 sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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Failure is the true 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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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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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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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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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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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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