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.
HERMAN MELVILLEOf 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.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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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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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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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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