A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
HERMAN MELVILLEMy body is but the lees of my better being.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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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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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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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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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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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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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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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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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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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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