One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
HERMAN MELVILLETruth is in things, and not in words.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
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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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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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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 sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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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.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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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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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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