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Herman Melville

Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

-Herman Melville

age

Art is the objectification of feeling.

-Herman Melville

art

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.

-Herman Melville

art

Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

-Herman Melville

death

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

-Herman Melville

faith

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

-Herman Melville

friendship

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.

-Herman Melville

future

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.

-Herman Melville

great

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

-Herman Melville

hope

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

-Herman Melville

hope

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

-Herman Melville

love

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

-Herman Melville

men

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

-Herman Melville

nature

At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.

-Herman Melville

respect

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

-Herman Melville

smile

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

-Herman Melville

strength

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

-Herman Melville

travel

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

-Herman Melville

truth

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

-Herman Melville

truth

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

-Herman Melville

truth

Truth is in things, and not in words.

-Herman Melville

truth

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.

-Herman Melville

wisdom

Herman Melville

Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

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.

Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.

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.

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

Truth is in things, and not in words.

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.

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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