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Old Quotes by Herman Melville
- See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps-often but old bottles and vials, though. ... He burns, too, the purest of…
- For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak…
- God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture…
- Youth is immortal; Tis the elderly only grow old!
- 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.
- How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there…
- Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother Jove? Surely all this…
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