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.
HERMAN MELVILLEDo not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
More Herman Melville Quotes
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Only the man who says no is free
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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 most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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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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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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