There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
HERMAN MELVILLEFaith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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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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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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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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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Only the man who says no is free
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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