Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
HERMAN MELVILLEIt is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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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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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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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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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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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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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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