If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
HERMAN MELVILLEStay true to the dreams of thy youth.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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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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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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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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