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.
HERMAN MELVILLEBetter to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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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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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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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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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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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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You cannot hide the soul.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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