Ignorance is the parent of fear.
HERMAN MELVILLEOnly the man who says no is free
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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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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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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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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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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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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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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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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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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