If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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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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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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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’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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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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Failure is the true test of greatness
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