Herman Melville Quotes About Life
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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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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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without - oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!
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None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
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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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We die of too much life.
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At my years, and with my disposition, or rather, constitution, one gets to care less and less for everything except downright goodfeeling. Life is so short, and so ridiculous and irrational (from a certain point of view) that one knows not what to make of it, unless--well, finish the sentence for yourself.
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We die, because we live.
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