The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
HERMAN MELVILLEI know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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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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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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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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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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