If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
HERMAN MELVILLEBeneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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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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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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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Only the man who says no is free
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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