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.
HERMAN MELVILLESilence is the only Voice of our God.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Only the man who says no is free
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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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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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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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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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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