Nature is nobody’s ally.
HERMAN MELVILLE
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.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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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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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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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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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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Only the man who says no is free
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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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