Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
HERMAN MELVILLESee how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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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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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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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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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.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Only the man who says no is free
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