Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
HERMAN MELVILLEA smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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Only the man who says no is free
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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