I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
HERMAN MELVILLETis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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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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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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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.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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