We cannot live for ourselves alone.
HERMAN MELVILLEThere is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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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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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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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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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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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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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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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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