We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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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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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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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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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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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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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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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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