Old age Quotes by Herman Melville

8 Old age quotes by Herman Melville

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Melville’s 'Old age' lines feel like a sailor’s short log entry—concise, weathered, and reflective. In just a few words, he captures the quiet currents that run beneath a long life at sea.

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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…

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“At the time I now write of, Father Mapple was in the hardy winter of a healthy old age; that sort of…

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“He lived in the world, as the last of the Grisly Bears lived in settled Missouri.And as Spring and Summer had departed,…

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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…

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“But, indeed, dull, dreary adversity was now in store for him; and adversity, come it at eighteen or eighty, is the true…

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“For all his old age, and his one arm, and his blind eyes, he must die the death and be murdered, in…

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“But pity there was none. For all his old age, and his one arm, and his blind eyes, he must die the…

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“For all his old age, and his one arm, and his blind eyes, he must die the death and be murdered, in…

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Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

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Only the man who says no is free

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“Yet this is life. For hardly have we mortals by long toilings extracted from this world's vast bulk its small but valuable sperm; and…

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I never fancied broiling fowls; - though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more…

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