I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
HERMAN MELVILLEFame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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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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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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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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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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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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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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