Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
HERMAN MELVILLEThere are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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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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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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