Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
HERMAN MELVILLEAid my disillusionment, my friend!
More Herman Melville Quotes
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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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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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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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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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.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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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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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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