Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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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Only the man who says no is free
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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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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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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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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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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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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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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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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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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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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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