Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
HERMAN MELVILLEA smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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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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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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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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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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