Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
HERMAN MELVILLEI am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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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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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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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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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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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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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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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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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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