Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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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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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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 only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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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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