If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
HERMAN MELVILLEThere are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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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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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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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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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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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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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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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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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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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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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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