Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
HERMAN MELVILLESilence is the only Voice of our God.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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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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You cannot hide the soul.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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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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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Only the man who says no is free
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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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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