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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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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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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Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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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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Only the man who says no is free
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