Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
HERMAN MELVILLEThe only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Only the man who says no is free
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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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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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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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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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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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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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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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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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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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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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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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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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