The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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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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Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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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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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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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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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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