Truth is in things, and not in words.
HERMAN MELVILLEWe 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.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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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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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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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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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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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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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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