We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
HERMAN MELVILLEMan is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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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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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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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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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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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Only the man who says no is free
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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