Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
HERMAN MELVILLESilence is the only Voice of our God.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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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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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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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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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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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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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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