Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
HERMAN MELVILLEThere are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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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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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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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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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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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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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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