Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
HERMAN MELVILLEA smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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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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Failure is the true test of greatness
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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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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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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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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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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