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.
HERMAN MELVILLEAid my disillusionment, my friend!
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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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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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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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.
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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Only the man who says no is free
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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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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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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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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