Nature is nobody’s ally.
HERMAN MELVILLEOnly the man who says no is free
More Herman Melville Quotes
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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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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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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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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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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