Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
HERMAN MELVILLEIgnorance is the parent of fear.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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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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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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