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.
HERMAN MELVILLEWhen among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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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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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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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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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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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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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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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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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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