I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
HERMAN MELVILLEA whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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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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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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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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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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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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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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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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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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