The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
HERMAN MELVILLEDream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Only the man who says no is free
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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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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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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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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