Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
HERMAN MELVILLEIgnorance is the parent of fear.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Only the man who says no is free
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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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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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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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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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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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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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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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