I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
HERMAN MELVILLEReal strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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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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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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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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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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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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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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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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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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