Ignorance is the parent of fear.
HERMAN MELVILLEThere is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Only the man who says no is free
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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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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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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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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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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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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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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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