Nature is nobody’s ally.
HERMAN MELVILLEBetter to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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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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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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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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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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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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