My body is but the lees of my better being.
HERMAN MELVILLEFriendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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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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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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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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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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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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Failure is the test of greatness.
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We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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