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 MELVILLEFriendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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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.
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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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