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. - Herman Melville
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? - Herman Melville
One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning. - Herman Melville
The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. - Herman Melville
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run. - Herman Melville
There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities. - Herman Melville
There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is. - Herman Melville
They think me mad--Starbuck does; but I'm demoniac, I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself! - Herman Melville
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it. - Herman Melville
Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness. - Herman Melville
A part of control is learning to correct your own weaknesses. The person doesn't live who was born with everything. Sometimes he has one weak point, generally he has several. The first thing is to know your faults. And then take on a systematic plan of correcting them. You know the old saying about a chain only being as strong as its weakest link. The same can be said in the chain of skills a man forges. - Babe Ruth
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