Truth is in things, and not in words.
HERMAN MELVILLEStay true to the dreams of thy youth.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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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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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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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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Only the man who says no is free
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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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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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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